Still capable of pipping Belgium to top spot in Euro 2024 qualifying Group F, Austria close out a successful preliminary campaign when they do battle with Estonia in Tallinn on Thursday.
In contrast, the hosts have only accrued one point from a possible 18 in the section, but their journey is not done and dusted just yet, as a playoff place remains on offer for the time being.
Since claiming their only point of the section so far against Azerbaijan in June, Estonia were subjected to a pair of 5-0 and 3-0 beatings at the hands of Belgium - also losing to Sweden by the latter scoreline - and Giovanni De Biasi's men rectified their summer errors to prevail 2-0 thanks to Toral Bayramov's header and Ramil Sheydayev's spot kick.
Estonia have not been consigned to a fifth-placed finish just yet, as the world's 118th-ranked nation only have a three-point gap to make up to Azerbaijan, but a trip to Sween this weekend will hardly fill the Blueshirts faithful with unbridled optimism.
As things stand, however, Estonia will receive a golden ticket to the playoffs, as fewer than four teams from the top tier of the Nations League are set to go down that path, meaning that the 12th and final spot will be passed onto the best-ranked League D nation, which just so happens to be Haberli's men.
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