They increase the number of participating teams? Perfect to reduce the level
The group winners and three best runners-up advance to the round of 16. Weird format.
As a neutral who only watches this when we have an Iranian team in the final (or are locked inside due to a pandemic and have nothing better to do during working hours), it's quite refreshing to see goat herders from India, Philippines, Tajikistan, etc join the continent's finest goat herders.
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