Tuesday's draw in Zurich left most of the continent's big sides sitting pretty in the race for Qatar 2022
Aside from a slight faux pas by Marcel Desailly and Caf’s Head of Competitions Samson Adamu late on – they incorrectly read out Nigeria for Group A when the blue ball revealed the reigning African champions Algeria – the draw for the 2022 World Cup went off without a hitch.
Even in the unlikely event that the mistake had been ratified, it says a lot about the stakes that little would have changed in the grand scheme.