Lionel Messi and Inter Miami on Saturday dropped out of the blocks with a 2–2 domestic draw against New York City FC in the early stages of the new Major League Soccer season. Miami, who broke the regular season points records last year before crashed in the first round of the playoffs, played the wholesale of the match with 10 men after being sent to Argentina defender Tomas Evils. Messi provided assistance for both Miami’s goals, including the leveler who came in the 10th minute stop time.
After replacing fellow Argentina Gerardo Martino, with the charge of the new head coach Xavier Mantrano for the first time in MLS, Miami depicted several new faces, but looked dissatisfied for most encounters.
The night began completely for Miami, who took the lead in the fifth minute, Messi slipped a pass, which fell into the house.
But then things started going wrong for the MLS Cup favorite.
One of the off-season arrival, Fafa Picault had to leave in the 10th minute after going down as a muscle injury, appeared as a muscle injury.
Then, 13 minutes later, the pace of the game changed significantly towards New York when Evils straightly brought Alonso Martinez down to the edge of the box to earn a red card.
Free-Kick Maxi Maxi Morlez took advantage of chaos in Miami defense-fed to Slovenian Mitja Elinic, who opened fire in the lower corner.
Makeshift defense
Miami with a temporary, inexperienced central defensive pair of Noah Allen and Ian Fry struggled to get a grip on the game, however, Robert Taylor forced the city keeper maid freeze to save a great at the end of half of the half.
New York could understand that there was a chance to get upset, but they could barely believe their luck when they were gifted the lead by Alba in the 55th minute.
East Spain and Barcelona Left-back passed directly to New York, carrying Martinezes forward, who accepted the gift before slotting the back of the Oscar razor and burst towards the goal.
Messi was very low in the way of quality service and had no support from the large -scale ineffective Luis Suarez, which was replaced four minutes after the goal.
Fraz excluded Messi Free-Kick and Alba found Federico Redondo with a good bridge-back, but midfielder side-foot wide.
But at the 10th minute stop time, Messi provided a touch to Class Miami, who provides a deafti finish to lift the ball over the fraze for tellasko segovia and Venezuela to raise the ball over the fraze for equal Does.
“He is the soul of this team,” Mascherano said about Messi. “You can see what he did in the end”.
The Miami coach said, “We need to keep it with this feeling because it is not only on the pitch that he transmits to his team colleagues.”
“He is not just playing in the attack, he helps in defense, running back, running in midfield, he is fantastic.”
Somewhere else at MLS, Emmanuel Latte Lath helped the team win 3–2 over Montreal for Atlanta United twice.
The Evorian striker was signed by Atlanta for a $ 22 million reported league record fee in the off-season by Atlanta.
The Colombian Edwin mosquito caught the winner for Atlanta with a luxurious, curling shot in the 85th minute.
The Philadelphia Union made a great start for life under the new South African coach Bradley Carnel, winning 4–2 with the grabbing a brace with Israeli Tai Bribo in Orlando City.
Togo International Kevin Denki made his debut for Cincinnati in his 1-0 win over New York Red Bulls, a $ 16 million signature from Belgium’s Serell Bruge.
Uruguayan Diego Rossi scored twice for the Columbus crew as he ruined the first game of Grego Fire in charge of Chicago Fire with a 4–2 win.
Sunday champion Los Angeles Galaxy hosted the league’s latest club San Diego FC.
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