La Pulga gets ready to travel to America in search of a new final, leaving no detail to chance.
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Lionel Messi is preparing for a new final of the United States league. Just days away from winning the League Cup on penalties against Nashville, his Inter Miami will take on FC Cincinnati in the US Open Cup semifinals on Wednesday.
As is traditional, La Pulga leaves no detail to chance. In addition to urging Tata Martino to incorporate him from the beginning, he wants to go for more and win his second title with the Florida club, despite the fact that he is dragging a vital series of games. And if that means keeping the cliques, so be it.
An image of the “hidden cabal” of Messi began to circulate in the last hours. It happened shortly after he arrived in Cincinnati, and it caused quite a stir among his followers on social media. A mob ran into the bus carrying them from the airport and handed the squad over to the rally with fresh breath. He got off the bus, smiled as he entered the hotel, and was greeted by an excited audience. His backpack, a white one that stood out from the rest of his classmates and coincidentally was the same. one that he used at the previous conference in Nashville, attracted the most attention.
Lionel Messi will make his debut in the semifinals of the US Open Cup, the country’s oldest soccer championship, on Wednesday. Inter Miami will head to FC Cincinnati in hopes of repeating their League Cup victory. TyC Sports will broadcast the game live from the TQL stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio, starting at 8:00 p.m. in Argentina. At 10:30 p.m., Houston Dynamo and Real Salt Lake will meet in the other semifinal.
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If Inter Miami advances and the Houston Dynamo win the other crucial one, Messi’s squad will play the final in Fort Lauderdale, while Real Salt Lake would play as a guest in Utah. The final of the oldest soccer event in the United States, first played in 1914, will take place on September 27. The cup is named after American industrialist Lamar Hunt, who is credited with establishing the “Super Bowl” of American football.
Messi will try to lead Inter Miami to another final after helping the team to its first League Cup trophy, which it won in a penalty shootout over Nashville. The captain of the Argentine team changed soccer in the United States in less than a month. surpassing the remarkable mark of 44 championships in his career.
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Top scorer in the League Cup, with 10 goals in seven games. Messi will be the captain of Gerardo Tata Martino’s team in one of the most challenging games of the new season, in his trip to the leader of the MLS Eastern Conference.
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Cincinnati, which has the Argentines Luciano Acosta (former Boca Juniors and Estudiantes) and Álvarez Barreal (former Vélez Sarsfield), lost on Sunday (3-0 against Columbus Crew, away from home) in the resumption of MLS after the break of the Leagues Cup, but still leads the standings. table with 51 points in 24 games, 33 more than Inter Miami (which has two games less).
“A lot of coaches and teams were focused on how to stop one of the best players in the game.” That will be our task. I saw how Nashville defended him well, but at one point Messi made a beautiful play, he scored the goal and that’s it; What else can you do? The Ohio Stadium franchise club makes its MLS debut in 2019 (a year ahead of Inter Miami) and will also compete in its inaugural US Open Cup final.
Lionel Messi gives Inter Miami its first championship.
Before Messi’s arrival, Inter Miami’s participation in this event began at the end of April with an agonizing loss on penalties against Miami FC of the second division of the United States. The club, still managed by Englishman Phil Neville, then beat another promotion team, Charleston. Battery, early May.
They faced for the first time in the round of 16 an MLS rival, Nashville, the same one from last Saturday’s championship, and triumphed 2-1 thanks to goals from Argentines Franco Negri and Nicolás Stefanelli, who are currently recovering from injuries. on the road.
On June 7, they defeated another second division team, Birmingham, 1-0, thanks to Argentine Javier Morales, former caretaker coach and current member of Martino’s coaching staff, who arrived at the club in January to reinforce the lead after the withdrawal of Gonzalo Higuain. at the end of 2022.
