Despite the absence of Lionel Messi, Inter Miami beat DC United 3-1 as a visitor this Saturday night MLS thanks to a providential double from the Uruguayan Luis Suarez.
‘El Pistolero’ entered at 62 minutes with a 1-1 tie on the scoreboard and was responsible for the two winning goals at 72 and 85 minutes at the Audi Field stadium in Washington DC.
The American Jared Stroud had ahead of the locals in the 14th minute but the Ecuadorian striker Leonardo Campana He equalized for Miami in the 24th minute, before Suárez’s double.
The 37-year-old Uruguayan striker thus climbed to the top of the MLS scorers with four goals in five games.
Including his participation in the Concacaf Champions Cup, Suárez has six goals in his last five games of a brilliant start to his first season at Inter Miami.
With Suárez “we had talked about him having half an hour and he ended up defining the game,” said the Inter coach. Gerardo Martino. “It makes me very happy because every time I see him feeling better and his ability to score goals makes him a fundamental player for us”.
With this victory, Inter remains at the top of the Eastern Conference with 10 points in five games.
Suárez’s inexhaustible scoring instinct compensated for Messi’s absence due to his hamstring injury in his right leg. Martino did not want to confirm if the world champion will be recovered for the friendlies that the Argentine National Team will play against El Salvador in Philadelphia and against Costa Rica in Los Angeles, on March 22 and 26.
This Saturday ‘Tata’ gave both Suárez and the Spaniard Jordi Alba a rest at the start, who started on Wednesday in the victory against Nashville in the Concachampions.
The ‘Tata’ fielded Campana instead of the former Liverpool and Barcelona scorer, in others and had his gala midfield formed by the Spanish Sergio Busquets, the Argentine Federico Redondo and the Paraguayan Diego Gómez.
The trio failed to control the game in a first half with numerous dangerous arrivals on both sides.
Belgian striker Christian Benteke missed a first one-on-one with goalkeeper Drake Callender in anticipation of the locals’ first goal.
The Polish Mateusz Klich served a pass between the lines for Stroud, who made an oriented control and launched a whip into the opposing squad.
Campana, Miami’s most active attacker, then tested goalkeeper Alex Bono’s reflexes with a header. In the same play, Redondo recovered the ball and enabled the tall Ecuadorian striker to score for the second consecutive day.
Argentine centre-back Nicolás Freire, one of Inter’s latest signings, left the game due to injury after half an hour.
On the brink of half-time, Inter had their best chance with a shot from the Finn Robert Taylor hitting the post after a great pass from Busquets from his field.
In the 62nd minute, the large Inter fans present at the Audi Field stood up for Suárez to enter the field.
Only ten minutes later came the key action of the match: a chance for DC United that was saved by Tomás Avilés in the small area and which later turned into a devastating counterattack in which Campana gave the death pass to Suárez.
The former Barcelona striker secured the victory in another counterattack in which he overshot the DC United goalkeeper with a subtle touch of his left foot.
Source: Ambito
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