Lionel Messi’s spectacular goal helps Inter Miami advance in the Concacaf Champions Cup

Lionel Messi The cold star was last week CONCAF Champions Cup The opening match in the first round between Inter Miaami and Sporting Kansas CityScored the only goal in 1-0 Miami victory.
In the second decisive stage in Bet South Florida on Tuesday, goats stole the offer again with another more exciting winner in the game to help the sad to advance to the 16th regional championship tour.
Messi started the play that will end up with a long Qatari pass to the previous Barcelona Teammate Luis Suarez On the left wing. Suarez ran towards a penalty box for visitors, and then monitored Messi alone, giving up the play on the other side. World Cup winner on charges of experience in vibrant and half -ball that left the deficit Skc a guard John Polscamb.
Messi’s strike in the 19th minute placed Miami 2-0 in a total. The flood gates were also opened to the hosts. Inter, which reached the quarter -finals last season before Beng was saved by Power Mexican Power MonterreyRecord twice before the completion of the half.
Firstly, Jordi Alba The position of Messi’s Argentine colleague Tadeo Allende. Suarez then benefited from some terrible defense by Kansas City to put the chain out of reach -House.
Memo RodríGuez pulled a single sport in the second half, but the Peter Vermes team did not approach. With the undoubted result of suspicion and after appearing in a row for 90 minutes by Messi, the 37 -year -old World Cup winner was replaced by a long period of time of the hour of coach Javier Maskrano.
Miami will face Jamaican Cavalier Club in the last 16 years. The first airports of this series, which will also be broadcast on March 6, will be broadcast with the return match the following week. Contemplate To become only the third MLS club in demanding the title of Concacaf this century. In 2022, Seattle Sounds picked up Mexico The 16 -year -old in the competition, which includes the sides of the upper club from the local league championships in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
He has returned to the current situation in the years after that, although the Liga MX teams defeated MLS’s competitors to raise the cup in 2023 and 2024. Bashoka Columbus at the time Cup at the Columbus Championship in the last year’s championship south of the border.
Miami started in the 2025 MLS season last Saturday with a 2-2 neck tie New York City At the Chis stadium in Fort Lauderdale. Messi helped both goals. The sadness returns to the work of the league on Sunday, when they travel to Texas to take over Houston Dinamo.
Doug Macinterre is a soccer writer for Fox Sport who covered US National teams for men and women at the FIFA World Cup on five continents. Follow it in Bydougmcintyre.

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