Lionel Messi will have a new challenge this Wednesday with the inter miami: beat FC Cincinnati to reach a new final.
The match will be played from 8:00 p.m. in Argentina at the TQL stadium in the city of cincinnatiin the stadium of Ohioand will be transmitted by TyC Sports. The other semifinal will be played from 22:30 Houston Dynamo and Royal Salt Lake.
The final of the oldest football tournament in USA -the first edition was played in 1914- will be on September 27.
Yeah inter miami advances and the winner of the other key is Houston DynamoThe team of Messi will be local in his stadium Fort Lauderdalewhile if it happens Royal Salt Lake will play the final as a visitor in the stadium of the stadium of Utah.
The cup is named after lamar huntan American businessman who went down in history for being the creator of the “super bowl“American football.
After winning the first title in the young history of inter miami with the League Cup who beat Nashville in a dramatic definition by penalties, Messi will try to guide inter miami to a new ending.
The captain of the Argentine national team revolutionized football in USA in a month and with the recent trophy he reached the historic mark of 44 titles in his career.
At 36, the best player in the Qatar World Cup 2022 was the scorer of the League Cup with ten goals in seven games.
Messi will lead the team Gerardo “Tata” Martino in one of the most difficult games of this new stage, since he will visit the current leader of the Eastern Conference of the MLS.
cincinnatia team that includes the Argentines Luciano Acosta (former Boca Juniors and Students) and Alvaro Barreal (ex Vélez Sarsfield), lost on Sunday (3-0 against Columbus Crewvisitor) at the restart of the MLS after the break for the League Cup but remains at the top of the table with 51 points in 24 games, 33 ahead of inter miami (He has two less encounters).
“Many coaches and teams focused on how to stop one of the best players in this sport. That will be our challenge. I saw how Nashville defended him in a good way but at one point Messi made an incredible play, scored the goal and that’s it. What else can you do?”analyzed the DT of cincinnati, pat noonanin statements to the media CBS Sports.
The franchise club of the stadium Ohio debuted in the MLS in 2019 (one year before inter miami) and will also go for his first final of US Open Cup.
Before the arrival of Messithe way of inter miami in this tournament began at the end of April with an agonizing classification by penalties against miami fcfrom the second division of USA.
Then the team that still ran the English Phil Neville eliminated, at the beginning of May, Charleston Batteryanother team of promotion.
In the round of 16, they faced a rival from the MLS, Nashvillethe same as the final last Saturday, and it was a 2-1 victory with goals from the Argentines Franco Negri and Nicholas Stefanelliwho are currently recovering from injuries.
On June 7, they faced the quarterfinals against another second division team, Birminghamand under the leadership of the Argentine Javier Moralesformer interim DT and current member of the coaching staff of Martinowon 1-0 with another goal from Stefanelliwho arrived at the club in January to strengthen the lead after the retirement of Gonzalo Higuain at the end of 2022.
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