Lionel Messi won a new trophy with Inter Miami on Wednesday during the victory in Columbus (2-3) during which he scored a double. His franchise won the Supporters’ Shield awarded to the best team of the regular season.
Carried by a double from Lionel Messi, Inter Miami won a prestigious success on Wednesday in Ohio on the lawn of the defending champion Columbus Crew (3-2), enough to secure first place in the football championship MLS at the end of the regular season. Inter Miami thus wins the Supporters’ Shield, the name of the trophy awarded to the team with the best record at the end of the championship but before the play-offs, which will decide the champion from 23 october.
His second trophy with Miami
On the lawn of the reigning champion, coached by the Frenchman Wilfried Nancy, Messi scored the first two goals of a disjointed match: the first on a long opening from Jordi Alba, his former partner at FC Barcelona, the second from a direct free kick.
The 37-year-old Argentinian, who recently returned from a two-month break due to injury, has compiled 17 goals and 15 assists in 17 league games this season. Last year, a few weeks after his signing following his departure from PSG, the eight-time Ballon d’Or won a first trophy under his new colors: the Leagues Cup.
The Crew returned to 2-1 before immediately seeing Luis Suarez give Miami (3-1) some breathing room, preceding Cucho Hernandez’s score reduction from the penalty spot. The Colombian took another penalty at the end of the match, saved by Drake Callender. “I am happy to have accomplished this first objective and to be able to think about what comes next,” after dominating a “tough” opponent, Messi said on Apple TV.
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