Manchester City indispensable beryllium prepared to "suffer" successful the challenging vigor of Orlando during Thursday's crunch Club World Cup lucifer against Juventus, says manager Pep Guardiola.
The somesthesia astatine Camping World Stadium was 31C during Wednesday's quality league astatine 17:00 section clip (22:00 BST) but that is forecast to emergence to 33C for the game, which kicks disconnected astatine 15:00 successful the United States (20:00 BST).
City's 6-0 thrashing of UAE broadside Al Ain was played astatine the enclosed Mercedes-Benz Stadium successful Atlanta, with the the aerial conditioning turned on.
"The vigor is obvious, we can't alteration it," said Guardiola. "It's amended to play astatine the Atlanta stadium, which is fantastic.
"All the teams person to grip it. The adjacent World Cup, radical cognize it already. We person to beryllium acceptable to suffer."
Chelsea brag Enzo Maresca said during the week it has been "impossible" to organise mean grooming sessions amid a "code red" terrible vigor informing successful Philadelphia.
Both City and Juventus person already qualified for the last-16 signifier of the contention with 2 victories apiece, but the Serie A broadside beryllium apical by virtuousness of 1 much extremity scored.
Their finishing positions successful Group G volition beryllium important heading into the knockout stages arsenic 1 of the sides volition adjacent travel up against La Liga giants Real Madrid.
After the opening crippled triumph implicit Wydad AC, Guardiola played an wholly antithetic starting XI successful the 2nd lucifer against Al Ain and says helium volition ringing the changes erstwhile more.
City volition beryllium without midfielder Claudio Echeverri, who is expected to miss 2 to 3 weeks aft sustaining an ankle wounded successful the erstwhile game, portion defender Rico Lewis is suspended.
The Spaniard said: "We volition play caller players and successful the adjacent crippled excessively and successful the 2nd half. The enactment has that successful mind.
"In these conditions we are not acceptable to play 90 minutes and astatine half-time we volition marque substitutions."
There has been disapproval astir ample banks of bare seats successful stadiums during the radical stages of the Fifa tournament.
This lucifer is being held astatine the exposed 60,000-capacity venue which offers small screen for spectators successful the stands.
"Two large clubs and hopefully determination volition beryllium people," said Guardiola. "Last 16, quarter-finals, semi-final, last - hopefully the stadiums volition beryllium full.
"But 70,000, 80,000 - it is not casual to clasp the crowd. Hopefully we tin bash a bully crippled and the radical tin come.
"Bring water, hats, towels connected the necks - it volition beryllium tough."
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