By Edgardo Avelar
20 Oct 2024, 01:52 AM EDT
The Argentine star Lionel Messi He came off the bench to score his first hat trick in the 2024 season, which he collaborated with the double from Uruguayan Luis Suárez that allowed Inter Miami to set a points record in Major League Soccer (MLS) with the 6-2 win over the New England Revolution.
Messi completed a spectacular week with six goalscounting the three he scored against Bolivia in the 6-0 victory in the tenth victory of the CONMEBOL World Cup qualifiers and the three tonight coming off the bench in the second half.
A round victory for the Florida teamas it allows them to reach 74 points, surpassing the mark of 71 held precisely by their victim tonight in the 2021 season, who after starting the duel with an advantage on the scoreboard did not even know how the Florida hurricane took victory from them .
In this way the team directed by the Argentine Gerardo “Tata” Martino finished first in the Eastern Conference and holder of the MLS Supporters’ Shield, was proclaimed as the best team of the regular season, ensuring that trophy in mathematical calculations at the beginning of October, now they will have the advantage to host the entire playoff series at home, including a supposed MLS final Cup.
For now, in the first phase of the finals, the Florida team will face to the winner of the wild card round between Montreal and Atlanta United, which represents an important advantage to advance to the duel for the title.
Inter Miami simply gave another blow of authority with the 6-2 victorybecause after suffering a strong slap in the face with the goals of the Argentine Luca Langoni in the 2nd minute and the Colombian Dylan Borrero in the 34th that they put against the wall, especially due to the obvious error in this last goal by goalkeeper Drake Callender
Messi, who received dosage of the effort load After the South American qualifying matches against Venezuela, with whom they tied 1-1 and the 6-0 win over Bolivia, he entered the field in the 57th minute to score an important hat trick.
But before Messi entered, Inter Miami had already resolved the rigmarole that the Boston team put before them, Well, with scores from the Uruguayan Luis Suárez in the 40th and 43rd minutes he made things 2-2 to leave the duel on a silver platter for Messi and for him to put in the ounce of gold to tip the duel in his favor.
Messi did not have to wait too long to make himself felt in the game by connecting an assist to his teammate Benjamín Cremaschi in the 57th minute and making the score 3-2. New England Revolution equalized again with a goal from Bobby Wood, but the whistler canceled it due to an apparent handball from the forward.
Thereafter, Messi scored a great goal from outside the area in the 78th minute, and then made it 5-2 in his second score at minute 81 and closed the win in minute 89, after a great combination with Luis Suárez and the Ecuadorian Leonardo Campana.
Thus, Inter Miami concluded a spectacular campaign with 20 scores from Messi and the same amount from Suárez, but with 16 assists in only 19 games that he was able to play due to all the injuries he suffered.
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