With Luis Suárez and Lionel Messi as figures and scorers, Inter Miami beat Orlando City in a new edition of the Clásico del Sol, for the second week of the MLS.
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On the eve of the Herons’ debut in the Concacaf Champions League, the team gave an exhibition, one of the largest of the Tata Martino eraand was imposed by 5 a 0 in the Florida derby.
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After beating Real Salt Lake in their debut and achieving an agonizing draw against LA Galaxy, Inter MIami appeared at Chase Stadium, looking to stay at the top of the MLS. And he quickly put that task into motion, thanks to the Pistolero’s first great performance, who had barely scored once in six friendlies and had not scored in his two official matches.
At 4 minutes, Suárez stole the ball, which was left to Messi, who opened with Julian Gressel, one of the most outstanding players in the match. The German midfielder sent a precise pass to Lucho, who firstly overcame Pedro Gallese’s resistance.
Orlando City, with the Colombian Óscar Pareja as coach and a team full of South Americans, assimilated the early blow, but the Uruguayan striker received after a great team play and, after threatening a rival, received a notable assist from Gressel, to enter to the area, define a cross and score his double.
Messi flirted with the goal by hitting a free kick on the crossbar, but the third came through Robert Taylor, although particularly due to the Gressel-Suárez formula: the German enabled the Uruguayan, who scored just cleared, and the 37-year-old attacker years served the goal for the Finn.
On the hour mark, with no reaction from the visitor, Messi assisted Suárez, who faked out Gallese and completed his hat-trick, but the conquest was annulled by a fine advanced position. The same line judge invalidated the discount of the purple cast at the beginning of the complement, whose reaction was quickly appeased.
Because Messi shot just wide, Gressel hit the crossbar, after a deep pass from Suárez, and around the hour mark the Argentine star scored his (bizarre) goal: Suárez and Jordi Alba put together a great wall, the Spanish full-back defined hand in hand, but Robin Jansson saved her on the line, bouncing the ball off the crossbar.
The problem is that there was the player from Rosario, who controlled his chest in the small area and, while the goal was rising, converted without touching the ball again, since he was held by a rival, who could not avoid the 4-0 scoreline. the Herons. This conquest, with his chest, was also reminiscent of Messi’s own victory against Estudiantes, in the final of the 2009 Club World Cup.
At the touch, in a match that no longer had equivalences, and in which Drake Callender appeared to prevent the fall of his fence when he was needed, a somewhat nostalgic place took place painted in blaugrana and to the rhythm of the River Plate: excellent center from Suárez and header goal from Messi, against Gallese’s leg.
In the end, there was half an hour left in the game: Messi completed it, but Suárez gave way to Leo Campana in the 66th minute, a while before Toto Avilés came out with some discomfort. From the game were, in addition to those mentioned, the Argentines Nicolás Freire, Rodrigo Schlegel, Martín Ojeda and Ramiro Enrique, the Uruguayans César Araújo and Nicolás Lodeiro, the Colombians Iván Angulo and Luis Muriel, the Peruvian Wilder Cartagena, the Paraguayan Diego Gómez and the Brazilians Rafael Santos and Felipe.
With this result, Inter Miami reached 7 points in 3 dates, positioning itself at the top of the Eastern Conference, although almost all teams have only one presentation. Orlando City, for its part, had tied in its debut.