Leo Messi and Luis Suarezboth with purpose and help, led to Inter Miami in the quarterfinals of Champions League of Concacaf, with a 3-1 victory at home against Nashville after 2-2 in the first leg. They returned to the starting lineup after resting in the league loss against Montreal and the magic returned to Chase Stadium. Now, in the quarterfinals, they await the winner of the tie between Mexican Monterrey and Cincinnati.
Messi assisted Suárez and then scored to make it 2-0, before retiring in the 49th minute. The Argentine provided 40 assists to Suárez in his career in the 260 games they played together. Messi has five goals in five games this year at Inter Miami and the ‘Pistolero’ has four in six games.
Inter Miami came out to bite and needed only 23 minutes to put the next round on track, led by the goals of the brightest stars, who played at will against a Nashville defense in deep trouble. The first goal was a football lesson offered by Alba, Messi and Suárez. The left back made a pass towards the front of the area, the ‘Pistolero’ missed the ball, Messi received and closed the triangulation to Suárez, who beat the goalkeeper by touching his right leg.
Nashville was uncomfortable on the field due to the pressure from Inter Miami and made several errors in the ball release phase that could have cost them a second goal before the 17th. Messi made amends the first time, but not the second, when he scored with his left foot inside the area to make it 2-0 to confirm the dominance of Tata Martino’s side.
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The double deficit, and the need to score at least two to force extra time, ended the first half with more confidence in Nashville and everything could change in the 44th minute, when Lovitz, a defender, grabbed the goal with a fantastic volley from the left. foot that repels the squad. It was a delicate moment for Inter Miami, who replaced Messi as soon as the restart began, in the 49th minute. The Argentine left the field walking with no signs of injury, although this type of change is unusual. ‘Tata’ is not optimistic.
His team suffered against Nashville’s push, which had some good scoring chances in Callender’s area, but it didn’t finish. And Inter Miami, in a moment of greatest suffering, found a way to make it 3-0, Taylor’s feat with a header after a perfect cross from Suárez. Nashville tried until the end to score at least one goal. And after a goal was disallowed for offside following a VAR review by German Hani Mukhtar, Surridge scored the final 3-1 goal in the 93rd minute.
DATA SHEET
3 – InterMiami: Callender; Gressel, Avilés, Kryvtsov (Allen, m.77), Freire, Alba; Redondo, Busquets, Gómez; Messi (Taylor, m.49) and Suárez (Campana, m.86)
1 – Nashville: Willis; Lovitz, Washington (Bauer, d.46), Macnaughton, Moore; Godoy (Anunga, m.68), Davis (Yearwood, m.68), Shaffleburg (Gaines, m.75), Mukhtar, Muyl (Surridge, m.46); Boyd
The objectives: 1-0, Suárez (m. 8); 2-0, Messi (m. 17); 3-0, Taylor (m. 63); 3-1, Surridge (m. 93)
Referee: Drew Fisher (CAN). He showed a yellow cardboard to Godoy (m.3), from Nashville
Happenings: Match equivalent to the second leg of the round of 16 of the Concacaf Champions League played at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale (USA) in front of nearly 20,000 spectators.
Source: La Verdad
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