3-1: Messi returns and puts Inter Miami in the final of the leagues cup

Lionel Messi He came back and the Inter Miami smiled. After a rather disconnected first part, the Argentine star scored two goals and, supported by fantastic Luis Suárez and Jordi Alba, sealed the pass to the final of the final of the Leagues Cup. Los Angeles Galaxy or Seattle Sounders are looking for the pass to the final with Inter Miami. The violet team turned the initial goal of Marco Pasalic in the second part. Three goals, the first one after a penalty that meant the yellow double expulsion of a rival player, signed the deed.

Messi’s presence or absence in the party, after having lost four meetings since his injury on August 2 against Necaxa, was the main unknown of the night. But the Argentine partially cleared the doubt when he arrived dressed in short to the field, and completely when he jumped to warm up, although with a kneeway in the left leg, the opposite that forced him to retire replaced almost a month ago.

The duel between both neighbors of Florida began hot, and barely sufficient 20 minutes so that the referee showed the first two yellow to two players of the Orlando City for a swipe in Luis Suárez’s face and an entrance behind about Baltasar Rodríguez. This tension turned on an Inter Miami, who had started unraveling with a disconnected Messi, and was growing in the game as the ten went with Rodrigo de Paul, Suárez and Rodríguez, the novelty in the eleven.

The clearest of the herons left a satin to the penalty spot of Jordi Alba that left the petrified defense, but in that empty space the Maximiliano Falcón central appeared, and not a striker, and his meek shot ended in the hands of the goalkeeper.

Orlando City, who had wasted a very clear hand in hand in Boots of Iván Angulo, compensated at the edge of the break when Marco Pasalic received a ball inside the area that should never have crossed the local defense, and after a rebound in the chest that was checked by the VAR, shot the goal of Oscar Ustari, which could not avoid the 0-1.

Inter Miami placed his ten players in the rival half

The script of the second half soon clarified after the resumption: Inter Miami placed its ten field players in the rival half, while their northern neighbors entrusted themselves to long balls that sought the speed of Angulo and Luis Muriel. Messi did magic even twice in the opposite area to get rid of how many purple dressed players tried to snatch the ball, but did not find the unchecking of any partner or an angle that allowed him to finish comfortable on the door.

Already overturned in the absence of a quarter of an hour, ‘Las Garzas’ found a double prize with a penalty for agriculture to Suárez who culminated in the expulsion of David Brekalo for second yellow. Messi assumed responsibility, and with a soft shot but placed on his right, matched the semifinals.