The Seattle Sounders They rolled 3-0 to Inter Miami In the Lumen Field Stadium in Seattle in the final of the Leagues Cup And they left Leo Messi without his third title in American football. The goals of Osaze de Rosario, in the first half, and Alex Roldán and Paul Rothrock, in the second, punished the lack of attached to Inter Miami, which had two clear opportunities to match the momentary 1-0, with Messi and Tadeo Allende.
As a finalist, Inter Miami, champion of the CUP Leagues in 2023, will also play the Concacaf Champions League in 2026, as well as the Sounders. It was played in a party atmosphere in Seattle, where singer Mario Bautista encouraged the ceremony prepared by singing the anthem of the Cup Leagues. For the stands of Lumen Field there were dozens of Messi banners, but thousands of sounders fans made their players feel at home.
Sounders won the Leagues Cup 2025 champion
And it was noticed at the beginning of the clash with aggressive sounders, which played a lot for the bands, entrusted to the spark of De la Vega and also the involvement of the sides. From Rosario, the maximum gunner of the Sounders in this Leagues Cup, twice the goalkeeper Óscar Ustari in the first ten minutes and the local defense assaulted in all positions a Messi who suffered to find spaces to release his left -hander.
And Seattle’s pressure had a prize in the 26th minute, when Alex Roldán hung a perfect center from the right wing that de Rozario sent to the bottom of the head meshes to give advantage to his team. It was the prize to the thrust of the Greens, who could also return to the locker room with double advantage, of not repelling the post a shot by Jesús Ferreira.
Messi had options to score, but this time he did not mark
The break came well to Inter Miami to reorganize ideas and the Mascherano team locked the Sounders in their field for twenty minutes in the resumption. But he lacked hit. Messi had an unbeatable occasion after a great pass from Suárez within the area, but he finished off with too much power and the ball finished high when he had barely spent four minutes in the second half. Ten minutes later, Suarez again invented a spectacular pass line to free Tadeo Allende, only before the goal.
The striker opened the right leg shot too much and the ball ended out. It was a psychological blow to Inter Miami, which began paying energy wear and weight to the backlash to the Sounders.
Ustari alive Inter Miami with a miracle in a hand in hand with Paul Rothrock in 73, but his team had no strength to find the goal. In the 82nd minute, Mascherano’s men asked for a penalty for a touch with a hand of Kalani Kossa-Rienzi in the area, but the Seattle player had his arm very close to the body. And, in the following action, ivory Georgi Minoungu was shot down in the area by Yannick Bright. The referee did not hesitate to whistle the maximum penalty that Roldán safely transformed for 2-0.
Technical file
3 – Sounders: Andrew Thomas; Alexander Roldán; Yeimar Gómez, Jackson Ragen, Reed Baker-Whiting; Cristian Roldán; Obed Vargas, Paul Rothrock (Kim Hee Hee, m.90); Pedro de la Vega (Kossa-Rienzi, M.60), Jesús Ferreira (Minoungou, m.77) and Osaze de Rosario (Leyva, M.61).
0 – Inter Miami: Óscar Ustari; Ian Fray (Picault, m.72), Gonzalo Luján (Segovia, m.57), Maximiliano Falcón, Jordi Alba; Sergio Busquets, Yannick Bright (Cremaschi, m.85), Rodrigo de Paul; Tadeo Allende, Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez.
Goals: 1-0, from Rosario (m. 26); 2-0, Cristian Roldán (m. 84); 3-0, Rothrock (m. 89)
Referee: Juan Gabriel Calderón (Costa Rica). Sergio Busquets (m.70) already showed yellow cardboard (m.70) (m.82), of Inter Miami.
Incidents: Match corresponding to the Final of the CUP Leagues played at the Lumen Field Stadium in Seattle against about 50,000 spectators.
In a party atmosphere at Lumen Field, the Sounders took confidence and put the icing on their night with Rothrock’s final 3-0. This Sunday the final was also played in Los Angeles for the third and fourth place, won 2-1 by the Galaxy against Orlando City.
