Thomas Tuchel believes that England will derive karmic justice from Diego Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’ goal when they return to the Azteca Stadium to play Mexico on Sunday.England will be playing at the same stadium where Maradona’s legendary handball goal helped Argentina to beat England 2-1 in the quarter-final of the 1986 World Cup.Argentina went on to win that tournament, beating West Germany in the final one week later.England will play at the Azteca again on Sunday afternoon in the last-16 of this World Cup, 40 years on from that infamous occasion. Not against Argentina, but against tournament co-hosts Mexico, and Tuchel hopes his team can finally “make peace with the stadium”.Tuchel was aged just 13 during the 1986 World Cup but he remembers what he calls “the World Cup of Maradona”.“Two goals against England: one that was dribbling, and one that would never stand these days,” he said on Thursday. Even as a neutral, Tuchel said the event “meant something” to him.Tuchel was asked whether the legacy and memory of that goal, perhaps the most famous ever scored, was in the air ahead of Sunday. The former Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain head coach said he trusts that the karma will finally repay his team.“It will reward us,” Tuchel said. “We will get it back. It’s karma. Karma will come back for us. We will turn it around.”St George’s Park is covered in photos of England players from the 1986 World Cup — including Gary Lineker and Peter Shilton — and Tuchel understands the historic significance of England returning there 40 years on. “This is a big moment to make peace with the stadium,” Tuchel said, “and turn things around.”The 52-year-old coach knows how difficult Sunday will be. “It’s an iconic stadium. It’s an iconic match to play against Mexico in Mexico. It will be against the whole country, the energy of the whole stadium in their country.” He even joked that he will bring earplugs because he “expects everything” in terms of noise before the game.England fly to Mexico on Friday evening with a series of fitness concerns, one of whom is Arsenal midfielder Declan Rice. He did not look at his best against DR Congo on Wednesday and Tuchel revealed afterwards that Rice had said to him that he was “in terrible pain” at the end of the game.“I asked him, he said ‘I can do it for the team but I am in terrible pain’”, Tuchel said of his conversation with Rice. “When Declan tells you he is in terrible pain then you know he cannot take it anymore. He was grateful we took him off but he said after the game it is not an issue. There is no injury, I think he will recover. He was just in pain and I hope he is right. It’s more neural pain.”The last-16 match will also present England with a fresh challenge, as the Azteca stadium sits 2,200 metres above sea level, with altitude a potential issue for Tuchel’s side.“We will go one night earlier,” the head coach said when asked directly on the issue. “It makes sense. The ball will fly differently. It will fly maybe five yards more. It’s just difficult. We just need the experience.“The recommendation is you either go ten days before — which is too long for us — or last minute, which is not allowed. We have spoken to teams who do it and they say they travel very very late on match day if they cannot have time to adapt. Find a mixture in between. It will stay as a disadvantage.”