Meanings of recent friendlies in English

They were fifth until Fifa's latest world order, factoring recent friendlies, was announced last week.

After winning all their qualifiers, Germany have failed to win recent friendlies against England, France, Spain and Brazil.

Neuer played for Germany in recent friendlies against Austria and Saudi Arabia in the build-up to the World Cup.

He did, however, earn a first international call-up this month, and played in Poland's recent friendlies against Uruguay and Mexico.

First Vardy must recover from the hip injury that forced him to miss England's recent friendlies against Spain and France.

Our recent friendlies helped.

The former World Player of the Year has been suffering with a thigh injury, which prevented him from featuring in Portugal's recent friendlies.

Denmark are pretty decent too, though in recent friendlies they have been behaving like computer-illiterate fools, and found it difficult to locate the Net.

While Guardiola said he had no problem with Gareth Southgate playing Stones in both of England's recent friendlies, he was the one who mentioned it.