One of many essential causes for Tuesday evening’s outcomes was that just one crew from the league section teams acquired computerized qualification.
The Netherlands, 2017 European champions, completed second of their group behind France, ranked sixth on the planet. They went on to beat Hungary 11-0 on combination.
Norway, World Cup winners in 1995 and six-time European finalists, misplaced out to giants Germany of their group and ended up beating Romania 8-0.
Different League A fallouts Sweden and the Republic of Eire thrashed their opponents 15-0 and 12-0 respectively.
So it was no shock when back-to-back European champions England, who had been drawn in the identical group as world champions Spain, went on to file one other heavy victory in opposition to a lot weaker opposition from League C of their play-off.
“In fact we needed to qualify immediately, that is not the case,” mentioned England supervisor Wiegman when requested in regards to the qualification course of once more on Tuesday.
“For us now, the information are that we’re within the play-offs, we now have performed Greece, now we’re by means of, and now we’ll play Ukraine. That is what my focus is on.
“Uefa will assessment how issues are arrange and see whether or not they assume it really works or it must be higher, or totally different. I do not assume it is my place now to assessment that.”
The Lionesses nonetheless have one other two-legged tie in opposition to Ukraine to play, with the primary leg happening away from residence on 1 December and the return fixture at Wembley Stadium on 5 December.
Ukraine are a aspect who England beat twice within the league section by an combination rating of 9-1.
It appears absurd that they need to should beat the identical crew on at the very least three events as a part of their qualification course of.
England have gained seven of their final eight qualifying matches, scoring 21 targets, conceding simply six instances, and their solely defeat was away from residence in opposition to world champions Spain.
They got here runners-up in League A3 solely on their head-to-head file with the perfect crew on the planet – they even beat Spain 1-0 at Wembley.
England’s total tally of 15 factors within the league section was overwhelmed by simply three different groups – Germany, Switzerland and Hungary.
Switzerland and Hungary had been additionally in qualifying teams in League B and League C that didn’t embrace a single crew from the world’s prime 45 ranked nations.
In distinction England, who had been seeded in League A, had Iceland – ranked thirteenth – as a tough opponent, and world primary Spain of their four-team group.