🏡 In Liga MX, there's no place like home

In the Conca-catch-up: A car is gifted in Panama, a GK goes lucha libre in Guatemala & love flourishes in Belize!

After the midweek matches in the Liga MX quarterfinals, it was clear. This is a league in which it is very, very difficult to win away from home. The good news for the favorites was that, in the Liguilla, both teams get a home game. The bad news is that for all but one, it didn’t matter.

The No. 5 seed, the No. 6 seed and the No. 7 seed are into the semifinals, and the No. 8 seed didn’t miss by much.

Liga MX does a nice job incentivizing teams to have a good regular season. The team that has the better finish moves on automatically when there is a tie.

The format isn’t to blame here. The losing teams and their coaches are.

We’ll talk more about this later in the week, but for now I’m going to breeze through each series with the second leg highlight and my quick take on each one. Then, we’ll get into a Conca-catch-up with updates from all around the region - especially Central America where the playoffs are in full swing in most leagues: