Lionel Messi showed once again that he is still a high-caliber and top-level player in the most recent matchday of Major League Soccer (MLS) in a duel where Inter Miami easily defeated the New England Revolution. Rosario’s idol appeared at the moment where ‘Las Garzas’ needed him most as a visitor.
The former player of the Football Club Barcelona and Paris Saint Germain managed to score a couple of great goals and provided an assist to his friend and teammate, the Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez, which finally resulted in a score of 4 goals to 1, so that the pink team consolidated itself at the top of the Eastern Conference.
Messi once again in a stellar plan
The performance of the captain of Inter Miami and the Argentine national team was such that it made him become once again in the figure of the day, and was able to be paired with a series of records that only made his participation in the meeting much greater and more unique. The mark reached in the United States soccer match was announced by the Florida club on its social networks: “Making history. “Messi is the first player in MLS to score 16 goal contributions in his first seven games.”
Messi accumulates a total of 9 goals and 7 assists in the 7 games played this season in Major League Soccerbut the North American championship has a different scheme from the rest of the world, since it adds assists in a different way, according to information cited from Forbes magazine: “The League continues to be one of the only competitions on the planet that grants secondary assists , in which the penultimate player to touch the ball before the scorer also receives official credit.”
It is precisely because of this rule that Messi benefits from continuing to increase his number. from 4 to 7 in this area, which together with the 9 goals scored make him reach the indicated figure in several days.
Messimania did its thing
Another important fact to mention is that there was a record attendance at the New England Revolution stadium. with a total of 65,612 fans present and this as a result of the visit of the Argentine Lionel Messi, an idol in life who has fans and followers in all corners of the world.
The Messi Stats page is a medium that has all the numbers in the Argentine forward’s professional career, and it indicates that Messi has scored a total of 22 goals and distributed 10 assists in 23 games played. In this Saturday’s match, he managed to score his fifth double with the Rosado team shirt. Furthermore, Messi was able to close the gap in terms of goals, in this case to 53 goals with respect to Portuguese forward Cristiano Ronaldo in the fight to be the top scorer in the history of football.
Next commitment of Messi and Inter
On the next day of Major League Soccer, Messi will have a new opportunity to continue shortening distances from the forward and current player of Al Nassr of the Saudi Pro League when Inter Miami faces the New York Red Bulls on date number 11 of the North American championship.
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