Lionel Messi in action for Inter Miami© AFP
Lionel Messi scored twice while Inter Miami retaliated by 2-0 on Assegat against the Los Angeles FC with a 3-1 victory (3-2 on aggregate) on Wednesday to go to the last four of the CONCACAF Champions Cup. By dragging 1-0 of the first paw, Miami found himself in large troubles when Aaron Long put the Lafc in the ninth minute. Messi brought Miami back in the match with a soft strike from outside the box in the 35th minute, but Javier Mascherano’s team still needed two additional goals. They took an advance of 2-1 in the night when Noah Allen cut a ball in the box and neither the Miami midfielder, Federico Redondo, nor the Los Angeles goalkeeper Hugo Lloris made contact with the ball while he was traveling beyond the goal.
Lionel Messi is 37 years old and he actually scores howrs every week …
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Miami still needed another one and thought they had it when Luis Suarez went into a cross of Messi, but the assistant referee judged that the Uruguayan striker was offside.
But the life buoy came when Miami called Marlon handball in a crowded fight in the box and a Var review found that the Brazilian defender had manipulated.
Messi slipped the 84th minute kick in the area to finish the return for Miami and won them a place in the last four.
But LaFC got closer three times to grab a winner in the dying minutes – Denis Bouanga forced Oscar Ustari’s stops twice which were also tested by a head of Ryan Hollingshead.
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