Without Lionel Messi On the pitch, the Inter Miami He suffers to overcome the rivals, he even becomes an average team, but with the flea on the pitch manages to bend rivals as Orlando City This Wednesday 3-1 to place the herons in their second final of Leagues Cup.
A triumph that knew greatness in a regional duel of the Florida where the star of the Selection of Argentina He returned to the courts after being absent due to physical discomfort and the return could not be better with an performance in the second half enough to leave on the playing field to those of Orlando City.
It is true that this semifinal could not go without the controversy of arbitration because of the different criteria of the Guatemalan whistle Walter López to interpret the faults of Sergio Busquets SOBRand Iván AngulOy de David Brekalo about Tadeo Allende. It seems that there the Central American whistle trembled his whistle to measure things in the same way.
A duel where the painted painting by the Colombian Óscar Couplewho believed that with Croatian’s goal PASALIC MARCO In the 45+1 minute, they had taken their hearts and pride from the herons. Because otherwise it is not understood that in the second half they have given the initiative to Inter Miami With a Messi that at each start with the ball gave a feeling of danger.
Thus, the historic albiceleste player began to invoice the effort with the beginning of his double on the grass of the Chase Stadium And that had its zenith in the 88th minute in a great combination with the Spanish Jordi Alba that left him full to beat the Peruvian goalkeeper of Orlando City Pedro Gallese.
The 3-1 of the Venezuelan Tablasco Segovia It was only the last nail in the coffin of the adversaries of the Inter Miami that in the second half they committed the serious sin of respecting too much Lionel Messi And they paid a penance with this defeat that places the team led by the Argentine Javier Mascherano in its second final in the last three editions.
Orlando City could not kill in the first half
It seems that the tactic of Orlando City was to go out and surprise Inter Miami To be able to invoice the damage that could be inflicted on Garzas And on that platform try to increase the collateral damage that could generate that offensive approach they sent with the Argentine Martín Ojeda and Colombians Eduard Atuesta and Luis Murillo.
Because Ojeda He had the first option at minute 9 when with a left -footed Óscar Ustarithat he was able to send the ball on the side, but that he gave the impression that at any time the first goal of the match could fall.
It is more a dangerous incursion of Rodrigo de PauThe 21 minutes seemed little with the way Orlando City I was pressing the rear of the pink, because two minutes later the Colombian Iván Angulo armed tremendous counterattack where it was easier than to fail her and her shot over the exit of Ustari He went a side wasting the great option to open the score.
They surprise Inter Miami
Little by little Inter Miami He was advancing lines and closing spaces to take control of the party to the degree that in minute 39, Lionel Messi He charged a corner kick that for little surprise the goalkeeper GALLESE With shot full of mischief and effect that forced the Peruvian to get the ball out before he crossed the goal line.
But when Garzas They believed having camed the storm, a play came where the Uruguayan defender Maximiliano Falcón could not control Pasalic And this after the ball hit him on his chest, he was left to throw shot that went to the bottom of the networks.
That goal believed the coach of Orlando Citythe Colombian Couple It would allow you Inter Miami, But with Messi opposite accompanied by Luis Suárez, Jordi Alba, Sergio Busquets, TELASCO SEGOVIA, Rodrigo de Paul and Tadeo Allendethe calculations were wrong.
The arbitration criteria is not the same for the Messi team and the others
For the second half, Inter Miami He went to the front headed by the Argentine star Lionel Messi, But the key was to close the circuits so that the front fasts of Orlando City They were as gagged before the three quarters of the pitch.
It is true that Orlando City lost a lot of strength to minute 59 when the Guatemalan referee Walter López did not indicate a penalty in favor of a lack of Spanish Sergio Busquets about Angle, that did not even allow to review in the VAR when the fault was evident.
Soon the arbitration criteria would be tested when Inter Miami He copied the land with multiple arrivals to the goal of GALLESEbut without any of them could cause considerable damage until the 75th minute when Jordi Alba He sent a center from the left that the Argentine Tadeo AllendAnd he wanted to finish off, but he was apparently pushed by the Slovenian David Brekalo.
The whistle did not hesitate to mark maximum penalty and expel the defender so that at minute 77 Messi with right shot be overcome GALLESE And they put themselves on the way to victory after drawing 1-1, because ten minutes later the own Lionel MessI and Jordi Alba were combined within the area to allow the flea to shoot the goal of the Lions For the 200-1 comeback.
Three minutes later, the Venezuelan Tablasco Segovia In a backlash initiated by MessI, prolonged by Of Paulwith transfer of Segovia with support of Luis Suárez and on wall for Uruguayan assistance and definition of its own Fablasco To leave everything 3-1.
In this way, the Inter Miami advanced for the second time in three years to the final of the Leagues Cup And he is still looking for an international title in 2025, which is closer than ever for the moment he lives Lionel Messi.
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