Alexi Lalas, one of the iconic figures of the United States national team In the 90s, he warned that the series of statements by the members of the Monterrey team against the Argentine star Lionel Messi could have generated the anger of the Inter Miami member to the point that “they could have awakened a monster.”
The American soccer legend analyzed all the back and forth between Monterrey against the members of Inter Miami, but mainly against Lionel Messi in his podcast “State of the Union”, where he stated that: “Monterrey could have created a monster.”
Lalas said that: “It is one thing to have a calm Messi and confront him, but another thing is to have an angry Messi. There are players who are easier to control when angry, but I think Messi, after everything he said and visiting Mexico, be careful because they may have created a monster.”
The former United States defender highlighted that in football there will always be differences, but in this case the whole series of bickering at the end of the match a week ago in the locker room of Chase Stadium in the city of Fort Lauderdale has created an atmosphere of revenge among the members of the North American team.
As will be remembered on Wednesday of last week at the end of the first leg, Lionel Messi He went to the locker room quite hot due to the performance of the Guatemalan whistler Walter López, who was angrily demanded for several assessments of the match after the 1-2 defeat on North American soil.
Faced with this, the members of Monterrey intervened in the events, including Nicolás Sánchez, technical assistant to the Argentine coach Fernando Ortiz and the sports director José Antonio Noriega, generating a whole series of unsportsmanlike events that reached a point where the Spanish Jordi Alba intervened to be about to attack the Rayados leader, grabbing him by the neck.
Obviously, this caused the Monterrey board to send a protest to CONCACAF, complaining about all these events and demanding that the regulations be applied to define responsibilities and sanction from the economic aspect such as the suspension of matches to whoever will be guilty of all these events. .
TAll this atmosphere has been increasing and it is expected that tonight at the BBVA stadiumthings are quite warm between both teams, much more so due to the presence of Lionel Messi on the field of play, which gives another dimension to Inter Miami’s game and who Alexi Lalas referred to in his podcast.
The North American Alexi Lalas is a former World Cup player for the United States in 1994 and in France 1998, at the time when North American soccer was beginning to show signs of growth and where Lalas was one of the great pioneers of both the national team of the Stars and Stripes and the MLS. The great duo he formed in the central defense with Marcelo Balboa is still fresh in the memories of American fans.
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