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20 hours ago, true_rover said:

Assume they were obliged to do so but there will have been a limited number of teams that were available given that most would have had their friendly fixed up before the playoff semi finals.

England have only become available because New Zealand dropped out of a game with them.I'm sure Italy and the Netherlands did themselves out a top seed in recent qualifiers (maybe even finals?) by playing lowly ranked teams in friendlies. Italy played San Marino and it cost them points due to the way the ranking points were averaged.

The Netherlands toured South-East Asia and played Indonesia & Thailand. It was more of a commercially motivated trip as Dutch football is followed a lot over there (Indonesia is a former colony). Despite winning both games, the ranking dropped and it cost the Dutch a top seeded position.

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