No-one can accuse Phil Neville of not going the extra mile.
His coaching staff deemed the training ground FIFA had assigned them here to be inadequate and the replacement pitch is at Cannes, which on Tuesday meant two-and-a-half hours criss-crossing the coast roads between a pre-match pre-conference in Nice and the team hotel in Antibes.
There is attention to detail, everywhere you look. Pictures of players' families placed in their rooms at the hotel they arrived at on Sunday and silver pendants, bearing the words 'France 2019', which Neville has given to all the players as a memento of their places in the squad.
Phil Neville ensured England Women switched to a better training pitch before facing Japan
England are now a much more professional outfit than they were at the 2015 World Cup
Toni Duggan was wearing hers on Monday. Her mobile phone was in the personalised case - carrying her name and squad number - which all the players also have.
These touches are not entirely new. There were personalised duvets carrying images of players' families at last year's under-20s tournament in France and Neville's predecessor Mark Sampson instituted a system which every psychological pitfall was covered at the 2015 World Cup.
There was even a role-play session to help players to deal with the blow of being dropped, at that tournament. Sampson's use of Lane 4, Adrian Moorhouse's sports consultancy, paved the way to the men doing the same.
England are determined to make it three wins from three and finish top of the group
Toni Duggan has been surprised by how kind Neville has been to his squad
But Duggan has been surprised by her tactile and rather emotional new international manager.
'I watched him when I was younger just thinking, oh, I hate him - he plays for Man United, Gary Neville, Phil Neville...' the ardent Liverpool fan said earlier this week. 'But now he's a coach he's so nice with you.'
A fundamental difference screams out between the England team facing Japan on Wednesday night and the one Sampson took into the 2015 World Cup semi-final against the same opposition in Edmonton. The manager's expectations.
Back then, the team were surprised and happy to be there. Many of the players were semi-professional, lacking elite level strength and conditioning work and Japan - reigning champions - were the ones with the slight swagger.
Now, they're on another level and Japan are the underdogs. Neville's England-based players belong to a fully professional Women's Super League, where the financial rewards are attracting stars from the world over. Two of them - Lucy Bronze and Nikita Parris - play for Lyon, the world's best club.
On Tuesday Japan coach Asako Takakura politely rejected the idea that her own No 7 ranked nation were 'on the back foot' because of this. But she did not pretend that they're up against it.
