England conceded early and lost 1-0. They had already lost 2-1 to Italy and had to tweak their style.
"We weren't able to play the English way," Hoddle continued. "We stopped trying to press and looked to contain our energy.
We finished on a high, beating West Germany 3-0."
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However, England reverted to type at the World Cup.
Sir Bobby Robson's side made a poor start in the group stage, losing to Portugal and drawing with Morocco.
They were not in Mexico City at first, so the heat was a bigger issue than the altitude.
Hoddle remembers hallucinating at the end of the Morocco game. He couldn't work out which end England were attacking.
It took a team meeting at a barbecue in Monterrey to force a change of direction.
The players agreed that they had to stop trying to play a high press. Robson and Don Howe, the assistant coach, took some convincing.
They wanted England to harry Poland in their final group game.
They thought the team would be straying from the "real strengths of English football" but player power won out.
England dropped off against Poland and reached the last 16 thanks to a 3-0 win.
The Poland game was in San Nicolás but England's more conservative style worked when they faced Paraguay at the Azteca in the last 16 and won 3-0 again.
It took Maradona to bundle England out in the last eight.
