🦅🦅🦅 Three

Club América puts itself in the history books with a third-straight title PLUS: Playoffs galore in the Conca-catch-up!

This doesn’t happen in Liga MX.

A topsy-turvy league with short tournaments that are much more sprint than marathon, there is variance at the top. Results only get more unpredictable as teams sell off top players - or contenders bring in a new manager and a few reinforcements and mount a trophy challenge.

For the first time since the league switched to short tournaments in the mid-1990s, there is a back-to-back-to-back champion. And it is Club América.

It didn’t feel like a surprise when captain Henry Martin lifted the trophy. After the early blast from Richard Sanchez that put América two goals up in the aggregate series with Monterrey, they looked destined for the title.

There were thrilling moments at the end when Rayados sought and found one goal - and hit the crossbar in their search for another. It never came, and América won its record title with a 3-2 aggregate victory after a 1-1 draw Sunday night.

Still, it didn’t feel like a surprise as América saw out the result and started its celebrations, familiar and special with each player knowing what he would’ve changed about the last two times and adjusted accordingly.

But this isn’t supposed to happen. And it almost didn’t.