Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez scored for Inter Miami on Saturday night, but for the second week in a row it wasn’t enough to get a win.
Inter Miami rallied from a one-goal deficit three times to draw 3-3 with St. Louis Miami. John’s. Louis City at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale. Messi scored once and could have had another if it wasn’t for a save from Roman Burki. , while Suárez found a goal at both ends of the field.
It is expected to be the last game in more than a month for Messi, Suarez and even Rojas and others, when the next foreign break begins, leading up to Copa America 2024 and Euro 2024.
Chris Durkin gave St. Louis City a surprise lead when he fired a shot around an Inter Miami finisher, the lead was short-lived as Messi combined with Jordi Alba to score a fantastic goal and tie the game. Louis took the lead late in the first half thanks to former Inter Miami player Indiana Vassilev, but Messi returned to the passer role and helped Suarez get Suarez to the far post to make it happen.
For the third time, it looked like St. Louis was taking the lead and holding it when Eduard Lowen’s corner was redirected to Durkin, but Alba thwarted the offside trap and nearly gave Miami fourth place on a night of thrilling action.
Start: 7:30 p. m. (7:00 p. m. ET / 4:00 p. m. PT) Venue: Chase Stadium (Fort Lauderdale, FL) Referee: Allen Chapman VAR: Kevin Stott
Starting lineups:
Inter Miami (4-3-3, left to right): Callender (GK) – Weigandt, Kryvtsov, Avilés, Alba – Redondo, Busquets, Rojas – Messi, Suárez, Taylor.
Saint-Louis (4-2-3-1, left to right): Burki (GK) – Totland, Parker, Nilsson, Markanich – Lowen, Durkin – Pompeu, Vassilev, Alm – Klauss.
Full time! Inter Miami 3, St. Louis City 3.
What an exceptional fit for enthusiasts and what a nightmare for trainers. It’s a big point on the road for St. Louis, who are yet to win in 4 games and still created so many chances and may have won (and maybe won). this game.
For Inter Miami, they have come back from a goal deficit on 3 occasions, which shows the impressive confidence of this team regardless of the score, however, 1v1 defense is still a factor for the club.
90th minute: Messi hits the target but is surrounded by the Saint-Louis defense and is taken away. Suárez is given one last chance and he heads towards goal, but it goes over the crossbar.
90th minute: Adeniran thwarts offside and heads for goal, but his shot is well saved by Callender. Action from start to finish!
90th minute: We’re in the middle of the five-minute stoppage time of the half.
90th minute: Weigandt FAILS! The right-back plays as a striker at the moment, Messi plays the ball on the right side and is concentrated on the ground, but Weigandt drags him away from the goal. If it’s Suárez, as Jake Zivin points out, he’s a goalkeeper.
90th minute: GREAT SAVE FOR BURKI! Messi discovers Weigandt wide on the right wing and the Argentine dribbles into the area and shoots low, but Burki saves. Excellent reaction to send the ball wide for a corner. Inter Miami is looking for the winner.
Minute 87: INTER MIAMI GOAL! Jordi Alba avoided the offside trap and was obviously heading towards goal, took two throw-ins and beat Burki on the near side. First, he was ruled offside, but referee Allen Chapman tested the forums and made a decision. that Markanich had left Alba out. Great moment of the match, and it is already 3-3!Inter Miami made 3 errors tonight.
86th minute: Great moment! The VAR review after a goal by Jordi Alba is offside through the assistant referee.
85th minute: At the other end, Sam Adeniran cuts inside, 1 against 3, and still manages to shoot, but it goes wide.
84th minute: Messi and Alba mix and Alba discovers Messi wide open in the most sensitive part of the area but his shot is deflected. The continuation goes well and goes to the finish line. Messi looks at the ground wondering how he didn’t score there.
82nd minute: Thorisson and Hiebert replace St. John’s. Louis City replace Lowen and Vassilev. Carnell hopes to get the 3-2 win away from home.
80th minute: Messi and Suárez mix outside the area and Suárez tries to return the ball to Messi but it is cleared. Inter Miami are looking for an equalizer.
77th minute: Campana enters the box on the left flank and tries to pass a cross to Suárez on the right, but it goes over his head.
72nd minute: Great save by Burki! Messi enters the Saint-Louis area and finds Cremaschi wide on the right. He touches and finishes off with a shot saved by Burki.
71st minute: Adeniran receives a shot from the most sensitive part of the area, but Callender makes a missed save. Inter Miami made some changes, bringing in Julian Gressel and Leo Campana in position of Matías Rojas and Robert Taylor.
Minute 68: GOAL ST. LUIS! From a corner by Lowen, Durkin came first and sent in a header. He took a header from Suárez and settled in the back of the net. What a moment, when Saint-Louis regained the lead, 3-2.
66th minute: Sam Adeniran replaces Joao Klauss.
Minute 64: SAVE Callender! Chris Durkin is loose in the box but his left-footed shot is well saved. Sailor had a bad clearance and Durkin reacted faster.
60th minute: Messi and Suárez let loose at half-time after a corner kick by Saint-Louis and Messi feints down the left, feigns on the right, then tries to play a ball through the center and is cleared. Suárez opens at a point in the goal. right channel.
58th minute: Celio Pompeu with a 70-yard dribble down the field as he passes 3 or 4 Inter Miami defenders before being crowded just outside the box and colliding with Cremaschi and wasting the ball. Referee Chapman continues to play.
56th minute: Inter Miami makes a quick transition attack and Rojas tries to beat Nilsson towards an open Taylor, but is cut off by St. John’s. Finally, Inter Miami gets a corner.
54th minute: Tim Parker skilfully passes the ball over a defender on the left side of the box and tries a cross, but comes out to take a throw-in.
Minute 51: Great save for Callender! Pompeu discovers Vassilev in a quick transition after a loss and Vassilev’s shot at the post is well saved by Callender.
Start of the second half: we are in the second half. A replacement at half-time: Ryan Sailor replaces Kryvtsov.
Halftime: Inter Miami already outscored St. Louis, 404-191 after more than forty-five minutes, and was still 2-2. You can see the other styles very obviously as St. Louis looks to initiate the counterattack and dribbles temporarily with a few passes before shooting, while Inter Miami has a patient passing attack. xG is in favor of Saint-Louis, 1. 2 to 0. 9. It says a lot about the point of difficulty of the two groups with their goals.
Half-time: Inter Miami 2, St. Louis City 2. Fans can’t ask for much more in this inter-conference clash. Messi and Suarez scored to tie the score for Inter Miami after Durkin and Vassilev, two former U. S. foreign youngsters who played in Europe and returned to MLS, gave St. Louis the U. S. Louis two advantages.
In addition, there were two substitutions due to injury and one end-to-end action. So far it’s just a classic game, any of the training groups will want statin-based blood pressure drugs.
Minute 45: INTER MIAMI GOAL! Out of nowhere, Messi picked up the ball in midfield, beat two players before bringing Alba into the box on the left. Alba crosses to the post and Suárez arrives and takes the most sensible corner and scores. What a match! Array 2-2. The game is tied again!
Minute 45: Five minutes of stoppage time in the first half.
45th minute: St. Louis hits him now and runs at a different speed than Inter Miami. Kryvtsov with a great block on a cross into the back of the box stopped an attack, but got here after a reckless pass, this time from Callender. , gave the ball to St. John’s. Louis in the attacking third.
Minute 43: Vassilev CHANCE! A hopeful long pass ended with Vassilev getting the Inter Miami byline, but his touch brought him down and his shot went wide of the goal. It could have been 3-1 and some other defensive errors for Inter Miami.
Minute 41: GOAL ST. LUIS! It was Vassilev who dribbled inside the box thanks to a fair pass from Kijima and after a pass, he fired a low shot to the post that beat Callender. Inter Miami is dismayed, as are its fans. And it is a vital goal for Vassilev, a former Inter Miami player who was let go. 2-1, town of Saint-Louis.
40th minute: Callender with a simple save from Totland after Klauss made a great throw-in with his back to goal to create area and chance for Totland to shoot.
37th minute: Kijima nearly received Vassilev’s pass on a breakaway, but was intercepted by Inter Miami’s defense.
Minute 34: GREAT SAVE FOR BURKI! Alba pauses on the left and pushes Messi to the ground as before, but Burki heads to his right and guesses perfectly to deflect Messi’s shot for a corner. Exceptional offense from Miami and equally formidable save.
29th minute: Inter Miami are also forced to move to the bench, as Federico Redondo replaces Benjamin Cremaschi. It’s nothing wonderful for Redondo and a player who has returned from a knee injury a few weeks ago.
27th minute: Klauss, at the other end, almost gave Saint-Louis the lead again, but it is deflected for a corner. Meanwhile, St. Louis City coach Bradley Carnell made his first change of the night, and Alm could continue. Hosei Kijima comes into play.
Minute 25: GOOOOOOOALLL INTER MIAMI!! We’ve noticed this before, haven’t we? Messi dribbles to the right and then left to the center and that just opens up the field. Alba is wide open on the left and Messi discovers it. Alba makes the best pass in the middle. Nobody follows Messi and he shoots very well in front of Burki in the net. The speed of play and the speed of thought between those two are on another level. A draw, 1-1, at Chase Stadium.
Minute 22: Rasmus Alm falls after a challenge when he grabbed his right knee and it turns out that he has earned a big blow. He is receiving a remedy and we will see if he can continue. He leaves the area alone, which is a smart sign.
Minute 19: Great play by Avilés! Another Inter Miami turnover leads to another breakaway chance for St. Louis, Pompeu’s pass beats Klauss and Avilés slides in to get the ball out of the box.
18th minute: Messi discovers Alba on the left wing and his early cross is stabbed towards the target through Taylor, but Burki manages to save.
Minute 15: GOAL ST. LUIS! WOW! Chris Durkin, the former U. S. youth international, touched the most sensitive part of the box from a temporarily executed corner and surely fired a curly shot in front of a stunned Drake Callender. Inter Miami fell asleep and Durkin made them pay. 1-0, St. Louis.
14th minute: An exceptional move by Pompeu sets Saint-Louis up for the break and ends up in the box at the feet of Vassilev, but his shot in the box is blocked and deflected over the crossbar. The best chance of the night for Saint-Louis.
Minute 11: Rojas tries to catch Burki off his line, but his shot from 60 meters goes wide. It would have been an impressive goal.
Minute 8: Matías Rojas decides that he is going to weigh one from 35 meters, but the Saint-Louis goalkeeper, Roman Burki, handles it with ease.
Minute 7: It has been at least 3 times that St. Louis has tried a quick transition with a long pass over the Inter Miami defense, looking to catch them. Not at the moment.
Minute 3: It’s already end-to-end action!Alba makes a very good long cross to pass the area to Weigandt on the right wing, Messi recovers the ball in the middle and hits a defender, but Klauss clears. who dribbles past Avilés from the halfway line to outside the area before unleashing a roller over the goal.
Start: We’re on our way from South Florida! Referee Allen Chapman gets us going.
5 minutes before kick-off: or they’re on the pitch for presentations!
15 minutes before kick-off: A situation to watch: this could possibly be Inter Miami’s last game where we see Messi, Luis Suarez, Rojas and a few others in the next 3 to 6 weeks due to foreign call-ups. The outside window starts next week and heads straight to Copa America and Euro 2024.
45 minutes before kick-off: Inter Miami coach Gerardo Martino makes just one update on the team that lost 3-1 to Atlanta United: Matías Rojas updates Julian Gressel. Meanwhile, St. Louis City coach Bradley Carnell makes two adjustments from his last game: Anthony Markanich and Eduard Lowen update Kyle Hiebert and Njabulo Blom.
1 hour before the start: We have queues! First of all, the city of Saint-Louis
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1 hour and 10 minutes before kickoff: The last time those two met, St. On July 15, 2023, St. Louis City, St. Louis City, beat Inter Miami. It arrived a week before Messi made his debut with the club. in the League Cup against Cruz. Blue.
1 hour and 15 minutes before kick-off: While waiting for the announcement of the lineups, here are the statistics for the year:
2021 – Lionel Messi’s club lost a match in which they scored a goal for the first time in more than 3 years, since the 2-1 defeat to Celta Vigo on May 16, 2021. Rareté. pic. twitter. com/aMqqy5Io61
Wednesday should have been a moment for Lionel Messi.
1 hour and 30 minutes before kickoff: We are in South Florida, so the weather is changing rapidly, but at this time it is partly cloudy in Fort Lauderdale. You can imagine rain at night, which can increase the difficulty for St. Louis. . Louis to keep Inter Miami off the plateau as they look to attack every time they have the ball.
1 hour and forty-five minutes before kickoff: Prior to Inter Miami’s 3-1 loss to Atlanta United on Wednesday, the Herons were on a 10-game unbeaten streak, with seven wins.
2 hours before kickoff: Taylor Twellman prepares us for tonight’s match. He (analysis) will be on the show with Jake Zivin (play by play) for Apple TV.
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Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba are available for variety. This would possibly be the last match in more than a month for Messi, Suarez, Matias Rojas and others eligible for variety for the Copa America or Euro 2024. so Inter Miami will need to send them off with a great performance.
For others, like Benjamin Cremaschi, he will most likely be available until the start of the 2024 Summer Olympics, when he is expected to be named to the United States roster.
Projected lineup of Inter Miami (4-3-3): Callender (GK) – Weigandt, Avilés, Kryvtsov, Alba – Gressel, Busquets, Cremaschi – Messi, Suárez, Rojas.
Inter Miami Subs (9): (Lineups one hour before kick-off)
St. Louis City lost midfielder Tomas Ostrak this year for the rest of the season to an ankle tendon injury, a brutal loss for a team that has dealt with a good percentage of injuries this year. One replacement we may see this weekend is the return of Aziel Jackson to the starting lineup.
Starting XI projected through St. Louis City (4-2-3-1): Burki (GK) – Totland, Parker, Nilsson, Hiebert – Lowen, Durkin – Vassilev, Jackson, Alm – Klauss.
St. Louis City Substitutes (9): (lineups one hour before kickoff)
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