Any team in that position isn't playing as well as the others above it...but we are woefully woefully short of match practice. We looked disorganised against the island nations and haven't had any chances to rectify that.
IRC the year leading into the play-off we'd played Spain and Italy and a fair few others. We did play Mexico, but I can't remember if this was before or after the play off. Actually did we play them twice?
This year- Saudi and UAE.