Lionel Messi and Inter Miami refer to business

The young person of Red Bulls, Mohammed Sofo, had just scored the fourth goal of a first half from start to finish during a rainy and acute evening at Chase Stadium. Messi dropped her hands on her kneesHolding the position in front of the Herons bench for what looked like a long time, apparently feeling the combined tension of the empty race of Miami of eight games in April thanks to their race at the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Champions Cup.

However, the Argentine legend has widened deeply and found another equipment after the intermission, combining beautifully with Telasco Segovia to remove its fourth league goal in 2025. The strike won a victory in time 4-1, and delighted Patrick Mahomes and other lights in Florida for this game and the Grand Prix of Miami during a starry week in Florida.

Messi's resilience embodies the task against the BFIF after the release of their moods of compliance with the incredible Vancouver Whitecaps on Wednesday, the Nadir of fifteen murderous in which the unbeaten herons previously lost three consecutive games and saw their dreams CCC escape.

“We needed this victory after three defeats, and to have very good feelings again,” said head coach Javier Mascherano in the Spanish post-match.

“In the first half, we had an efficiency that we did not have in several games, not only that we had a lot [goalscoring] situations.

“And then we tried in the second period with the last post entries, to better manage the ball, to better control the match, not to be as direct, because the last 15, 20 minutes of the first half, we lost possession of the ball, they grew up and they progressed on the field, and we were trying to avoid giving them control of the game.”

What looked like a full-time comfortable victory was perhaps not as easy as it seems, given the intense emotions of their sorrow in the middle of the week and the storm of doubt and criticism which followed the unexpected distribution of Messi & Co. by the Whitecaps.

“Obviously, in everything we compete, we try to get to the highest possible position. We have shown it in the champions [Cup]”Said Mascherano.” Sometimes we must understand that you have an opponent; The opponent plays. Sometimes the opponent does better, as Vancouver did.

“Sometimes public opinion is to analyze the results. We analyze more than the results: the content, the why, ”he added. “I understand that there is a lot of frustration. The one who is the most frustrated is me is coaches staff and players who cannot go to the final. ”

Returning to winning ahead of another busy month can be crucial to stabilize the Rosanegra shipped for the climbing to come. Miami will play seven games in May, including long trips to Minnesota and San Jose next week before a duel of rivalry week with Orlando City, and devices against the Eastern Powers Philadelphia and Columbus conference later in the month.

“We had a difficult week. It was important to end the matches we had – a ton of matches – on a good note before the days off we are going to have before the road trip next week,” local defender Noah Allen told MLS Pass after the final whistle. “So very important to get these three points that can settle our confidence.”

Over the years, the hangover of the Champions Cup has become a infamous danger for the MLS teams who do deep races. Thus, each point, each positive result is important for Miami, in particular in the light of its imminent participation in the World Cup of the broad clubs this summer, a more or less unprecedented challenge.

With so many eyes on the BFIF project and expectations so high for Messi & Friends, each reverse causes a palpable disappointment, even indignation, around the club. This will not change anytime soon. However, when the dust settles after the day of the match 11, the Herons will have 21 points of 10 championship matches (6W-1L-3D) and are only three points from the team of Eastern Leaders Columbus with a match in hand.

“We will try to continue to do our best. We will try to learn from our mistakes. And we will continue to say that this team can compete, and we are going to face everything that awaits us,” said Mascherano. “Today, we are here to focus on the MLS, trying to get to the top of this conference, then we will see what will happen with the Club World Cup, the League Cup.

“The most important match, I said from the start, is the next one, so we will focus next weekend.”