No one inside Chase Stadium on Saturday night could have predicted what was to come at half-time as Lionel Messi smashed records.
Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez shine in the second half as Inter Miami thrashes New York Red Bulls 6-2 in MLS. had opened the scoring for the Red Bulls, giving the Herons flashbacks of their dreadful first confrontation with New York this season when they lost 4-0 at the Red Bull Arena on March 23. Inter Miami had played through the International break and also missed several players through injury-induced absences.
"There is not much to say, except that we were outmatched from start to finish," Martino said after that first meeting."When a team enters a game without the desire to win, without spirit, without competing, and the other side just wants to win the game, they are going to win it."Six weeks later, the first half gave the impression that the Red Bulls might just be Miami's kryptonite. Only this time around, Inter Miami boasted their not-so-secret weapon.
Two minutes later, Messi found the back of the net himself with a shot into the net from the center of the box. The equalizer calmed Miami's nerves and frazzled the opponent. The rainstorm of goals persisted until Suarez completed his first MLS hat trick. But even after watching him for years, Martino emphasized the impactful performance against the Red Bulls will be difficult to witness again.in the Copa America in Chile, where he didn't score a goal and he was still the best player on the field. In Barcelona, he had a game againstwhere we were losing 1-0 and then he scored three goals and we won 4-1. I always say this, and it's redundant at this point, but he always does something new.
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