The start of the 2024 Major League Soccer season for Inter Miami was one in style, achieving a 2-0 victory against Real Salt Lake where the greatest figure of the meeting was the Argentine star Lionel Andrés Messi; The Argentine star was quite active and participatory in most of the team’s offensive plays and in addition to this, ‘Leo’ was the key player to open the scoring of the match.
From the opening whistle of the match, the Argentine did not stop for a second to run the field and look to create scoring opportunities.whether as the protagonist of the play looking to score or assisting his teammates, partnering with his friend ‘El Pistolero’, Luis Suárez.
Messi was the leader of the playing field
The first clear scoring chance that Messi had was in the 16th minute of the game with a free kick that defender Justen Glad managed to deflect. from Real Salt Lake and the ball ended up in a corner kick for ‘Las Garzas’, and that is where Lionel’s execution from that point almost made him score an Olympic goal.
Messi’s level of play and, above all, his intensity on the field was such that there was a moment where he got angry with his teammate. Julian Gressel for not having given him a pass when the man from Rosario was alone with the possibility of being able to finish on goal.
The moment of the goal would finally come in the 38th minute of play when Messi received a pass from his former teammate at the Barcelona Football Club, Sergio Busquets. and he gave another to Robert Taylor who opened the score 1-0 in favor of Inter Miami almost at the end of the first half of play.
However, before finishing the first half, Messi would once again demonstrate all his talent and skills by dribbling over an opponent who was on the ground. for a blow. The Argentine managed to avoid it with a self-pass and caused an uproar in the Inter stadium.
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In the second half of play Messi would not lower the level of play and would continue looking to increase the score in favor of Interthe Argentine was relentless in the counterattack, generating a lot of game action and each of them characterized by the speed with which the match was being handled by both squads.
Messi was the player who made the difference in the game and always asked for the ball, which made his teammates get much more push and motivation when it came to recovering the ball due to some losses they suffered and which caused a slight awakening of the visiting team from Utah.
The 83rd minute of the game would arrive and Messi was once again the protagonist when he received a ball from Paraguayan Diego Gómezmade the decision to face the rival area, passed to Suárez who in turn returned the gesture to Gómez and defined a cross and finally settled the match with the final 2-0.
With this victory, Inter Miami achieves its first 3 points of the 2024 Major League Soccer season and starts on the right foot which is a year where they hope to win everything with the help of Messi himself together with Luis Suárez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba, their main figures on the playing field.
Those from Miami will return to action next Saturday, March 2 when they host Orlando City in what the Florida classic means, a very important match for the Argentine team.
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