<p>LAS VEGAS — As though England didn’t have enough pressure, building by the decades and punctuated by penalty-kick futility, since claiming its lone World Cup on its own turf in 1966.</p><p>A data engineer compiled information, from kickoff times to travel distance, temperature, humidity, altitude, etc., to gauge each team’s group-stage ‘‘burden rating,’’ and only one side has it tougher than the Three Lions.</p><p>Uzbekistan.</p><p>Bob Yakubov, an analyst and soccer scout near Kansas City, where England will be headquartered, created the figures.</p><p>It’s the final bit of minutiae punters might apply in their last-minute handicapping of the expanded 48-team tournament, which starts Thursday with South Africa facing Mexico in Mexico City.</p><p>The Three Lions play Croatia in Dallas (June 17), Ghana in Boston (June 23) and Panama in New Jersey (June 27).</p><p>They sport a 74.2 burden rating (out of 100), the Uzbeks 80. Curacao, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uruguay round out the top five.</p><p>Portugal, Japan, Croatia (third four years ago, second in 2018) and Austria are also among the top 10.</p><p>At the other end is Paraguay (0.0), which will call San Francisco home and play back-to-back matches at Levi’s Stadium. Above Paraguay are Mexico (0.3), South Korea (4.5) and the United States (12.7) at No.