With the March friendlies in the books, national sides should be feeling around 80 or 90 percent settled in preparation for the 2018 World Cup. These games represent a penultimate tune-up opportunity, a chance to fling a final idea or two into the fire, a shot at fine-tuning cohesion.
When perusing the eight favourites for the tournament (according to Oddschecker) we found this to be the case for some, but not for others. For every Brazil, who have the starting XI nailed and at least 18 players guaranteed spots, there's an England, who don't even know who their goalkeeper is.