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. Ellen White (left) and Steph Houghton (right) train as England prepare to face Japan 'All of them,' she said, when asked which English players presented the threat. 'Without us giving everything we've got I know we won't be able to win the game.' Neville's discussion of the task in hand was notable for its fulsome praise for Sampson - a very popular manager with the players, despite his controversial departure - and for that 2015 team, who have been characterised as less sophisticated than the new England. 'I don't like the fact that we play down the team for 2015 or the manager's contribution,' said Neville - words which will go down well with his senior players. 'They played good football. They had good players. If I was in that team, I'd be saying to the 2019 team, 'You try to beat that.' Lucy Bronze England entered this tournament with much more belief than in 2015 Lucy Bronze, a devastated member of the defeated 2015 semi-finalists, related that things were different, four years on. 'It's more intense, she said. 'In 2015, we may have overachieved by making semi-final, although we played really well and could have won. 'Coming into this World Cup, we have a lot more belief. That's [what's] changed. We're not here to make up the numbers. We've beaten USA, France Germany now. We're no pushovers. We can win any game. That's why we go into this game wanting to beat them, fair and square.' Neville's small details including limiting the Cannes training session to 40 minutes, to avoid fatigue ahead of a game which take place in evening temperatures expected to be around 24F on Wednesday night. He and his coaching staff talk a lot about 'accumulative fatigue', where players think they are training hard but you pay for it later. THREE JAPANESE DANGERS YUI HASEGAWA Coach Asako Takakura hinted on Tuesday night that the 22-year-old might start on the bench, but her goals make her the focus of attention in Japan. She brings fine close control and incisive passing as well as goals. She seems to be carrying a knock but scored from the bench against Scotland. Yui Hasegawa might start on the bench but provides a major attacking threat for Japan SAKI KUMAGAI The central defensive pillar, captain and 28-year-old stalwart in a young Japanese squad. A member of the 2015 side who reached the final, she has added incentive to reach the final in Lyon, where she’s played since 2013. Defender Saki Kumagai will be looking to thwart England's attack on Wednesday MANA IWABUCHI The former Bayern Munich forward, now based in Italy, is a major goal threat and was their outstanding player in the 2-1 win over Scotland. Still only 26, she was a member of the 2011 World Cup winning team. Mana Iwabuchi was hugely impressive as Japan secured victory against Scotland When it was put to him that Sir Alex Ferguson has been on touch with the Scotland manager Shirley Kerr and that perhaps he might be the first England manager to receive some encouragement from his old manager, the expectation was that he would enjoy the joke. He hadn't heard from him and didn't expect to. He preferred to discuss his team's need for greater ruthlessness in the final third. This was Neville with his game head on. 'The players are under no illusions about my expectations,' he said before hitting the coast road again. 'We want to win every game. If we do that we'll be successful.' All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility