Lionel Messi returned to action for Inter Miami after his injury layoff and only scored two minutes after entering as a second half substitute in the 2-1 victory of his team against the Philadelphia Union on Saturday. Messi had missed the qualifications of the World Cup in Argentina in South America at the recent international window after winning adductive tension in the last Miami major leagues football match, a 2-1 victory in Atlanta on March 16. Finnish winger Robert Taylor had put Miami in the 23rd minute, destroyed the house of Benjamin Cremaschi after Jordi Alba shone the left side.
Messi was trained by coach Javier Mascherano in the 55th minute and in two minutes was on the target. The former teammate of Barcelona de Messi, Luis Suarez, chose him on the right and he marked out to make room and pulled a low and straight effort in the most distant corner.
Philadelphia withdrew a goal in the 80th minute when Quinn Sullivan whipped a cross of the right midfielder and the Hungarian midfielder Daniel Gazdag lowered the ball before pulling a net shot at home.
Miami Invainu heads the Eastern Conference with four victories from their first five games of the season.
Inter faces a busy spell with a trip to Los Angeles to play Lafc in a quarter -final of the Concacaf Champions Cup at first sight on Wednesday. They have a home match against Toronto the following Sunday with the return against Lafc three days later.
Mascherano said it was a prudent decision to start with Messi on the bench.
“We did not want to risk it from the start because we thought it could be at risk playing the whole match, but we wanted him to have a few minutes,” said the Argentine coach.
“The plan is that he can get back and go to Los Angeles. He played today because he was fine. Maybe he was not ready for the full 90 minutes, but it was good for him to play 45 minutes. If nothing unusual happens, the plan is for him to travel,” he added.
Thriller with seven goals
In a seven goals thriller, Atlanta United dragged 3-1 at home against the New York City FC after Wolff scored twice for visitors before Keaton Parks’s own goal brought them back to the match.
But then, a head of Miguel Almiron, who returned to the Newcastle United club during the pre-season transfer window caused the Atlanta level with 15 minutes to play.
Another recent arrival, the Ivorian striker Emmanuel Latte Latte, a record club of $ 22 million from the signing of Middlesbrough, took advantage of the hesitant defense to sneak and grasp the winner of the 84th minute to do so 4-3.
Uruguayan striker Diego Rossi scored twice for the Columbus crew during his 2-1 victory at DC United and Canada striker Tani Oluwaseyi caught a splint for Minnesota United during their 2-0 victory against Real Salt Lake.
The Spanish midfielder Carles Gil scored the winner of the penalty point in the seventh minute of the time of downtime while the New England Revolution defeated the Red Bulls of New York 2-1.
Gil had opened the scoring for New England with a superb free kick before the former striker of Bayern Munich, Eric Choupo-motor, leveled the Red Bulls.
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