He Inter Miami made their home field count and won 3-1 against nashville this Tuesday at the Chase Stadium, formerly called DRV PNK, after the two-goal draw in the first leg.
With this score, the Florida team got its ticket to the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Champions Cupwhere they will face the best of the series between Monterrey and Cincinnati, which the royals are winning 0-1.
Messi returned to the starting eleven and Suarez after resting in the league defeat against Montreal and the magic returned to Chase Stadium. Both scored and assisted and sent Inter Miami to the quarterfinals, where they await the winner of the tie between the Mexican Monterrey and Cincinnati.
Messi attended Suarez and then scored 2-0, before retiring in the 49th minute. The Argentine gave 40 assists to Suárez in his career in the 260 games they played together.
Messi He 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 He only needed 23 minutes to get his ticket to the next round on track, led by the goals of their brightest stars, who played at ease against a Nashville defense in tremendous trouble.
The first goal was a football lesson offered by Alba, Messi and Suárez. The left back gave a pass towards the front of the area, the ‘Pistolero’ let the ball pass, Messi received and closed the triangulation with Suárez, who beat the goalkeeper with a touch with his right leg.
Nashville was very uncomfortable on the field due to the pressure from Inter Miami and made many errors in the ball release phase that could have cost them the second goal before the 17th. Messi forgave the first chance, but not the second, when he scored with his left foot inside the area and went up 2-0 to the bright team. to confirm the dominance of Martino’s team.
The double disadvantage, and the need to score at least two to force extra time, made Nashville finish the first half with more confidence and everything could change in the 44th minute, when Lovitz, a defender, touched the goal with a spectacular volley from left foot that repelled 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 without signs of injury, although the type of change was unusual.
His team suffered against the push of Nashville, who had some good scoring opportunities in Callender’s area, but could not finish them. AND Inter Miami, in the moment of greatest suffering, found its way to 3-0, the work of Taylor 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 after a VAR review of the German Hani Mukhtar, Surridge scored in the 93rd minute to make it 3-1.
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