Messi scores two as Inter Miami beats Nashville 4-0 at Chase Stadium

Inter Miami yet moved past Round 1, beating Nashville SC 4-0 astatine Chase Stadium arsenic Lionel Messi scored doubly earlier halftime and acceptable the gait for everything that followed. You could consciousness however aboriginal power settled the group. He struck successful the 10th minute, guiding a debased changeable into the close corner, past added a 2nd aboriginal on. The team’s signifier held, its property bit, and the crippled loosened for runners specified arsenic Tadeo Allende, who finished the nighttime with a precocious quickfire double.

Depth steps up without Suárez

Luis Suárez served a one-game suspension and watched from the sideline, truthful 19-year-old Mateo Silvetti started. His nexus with Messi paid off. “Maybe close present 1 doesn't recognize it, but tomorrow, it volition deed maine [that I assisted Messi for a goal],” Silvetti said. “It's an grant already to stock the time to time with Messi, to person moments, stock the tract and adhd minutes with him and each my different teammates that are elite.” Behind them, Rocco Ríos Novo made definite Nashville’s 11 shots went nowhere, banking Miami’s archetypal cleanable expanse of the 2025 postseason.

What the manager saw

Javier Mascherano praised the modular and the focus. “I deliberation the squad played astir perfectly,” Miami manager Javier Mascherano said. “I'm not saying perfect, determination are ever things to improve, but we were astatine a very, precise precocious level successful each area, precise aggravated from the archetypal minute, precise organized and precise bully astatine pressing high.
“The information is, I'm precise grateful to these players due to the fact that we perfectly understood what was astatine involvement today, the value of being capable to enactment the nine successful a spot and successful a signifier it had ne'er been successful before, and they truly did a precise bully job.”

Miami took the bid 2-1 and heads to No. 2 effect FC Cincinnati astatine TQL Stadium for a one-game Eastern Conference semifinal. Messi finished the three-game acceptable with 5 goals and present has 12 successful 7 vocation matches against Nashville. “I'm truly blessed due to the fact that I deliberation the team, with its mistakes and its strengths, has ever fixed its each passim the season,” Mascherano said. “We've had immoderate very, precise bully stretches during the regular play and successful different competitions arsenic well. And it would person been precise unfair to beryllium eliminated astatine this stage.

“I'm besides blessed for the nine itself due to the fact that aft what happened past year, determination was a spot of a feeling successful the air, and you could consciousness that it could hap again. I deliberation present there's thing amended than looking ahead; that's each successful the past, forgotten, and being capable to look forward. I'm not 1 to amusement disconnected a lot, nor americium I 1 to spell from 1 utmost to the other. This continues for us.”