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FIFA officially announces that the intercontinental playoffs for the 2022 World Cup will be single-leg matches at a neutral site next June.
Single-leg match for all the marbles, where advancement is mostly down to which team you draw, is horrible.
If only there were a way - this is gonna sound crazy, so just hear me out here - where they could maybe have all 3 teams play against each other? Maybe also at a neutral site? They could even have the final 2 matches played at the same time, to avoid any shenanigans. And then the top two teams out of the four could advance to the next stage? You think FIFA could figure out how to manage a crazy scheme like that?