Concacaf's final two windows of 2022 World Cup qualifying will feature something that the first three did not: VAR.
The region's governing body said Wednesday that it will be implementing video assistant referees in all of the remaining six qualifying matchdays, altering the calculus for all eight teams more than halfway into the Octagonal.
Concacaf had come under fire for not having VAR ready for the start of qualifying, given the stakes of the competition. Its reasoning at the time was that not enough venues in enough competing countries could support the technology, nor was there enough VAR-qualified referees. Those problems are no longer a factor, according to a statement released Wednesday.
