Sick for Messi: Inter Miami, eliminated from Concachampions

Sick for Messi: Inter Miami, eliminated from Concachampions

Inter Miami fell by 3 to 1 against Vancouver Whitecaps from Canada in the match that they played tonight, at Chase Stadium, for the semifinal of the Concacaf Champions Cupwhose global result was 5 to 1.

The defender Jordi Alba had put Inter advantage at nine minutes from the first stage, but the strikers Brian White and Pedro Vite traced five and seven minutes of the complement. The Sebastian Berhalter flyer expanded the advantage at 25 minutes.

With the defeat, the team of Javier Mascherano He was eliminated and will play again on Saturday, May 3, against New York Red Bulls, for the Mls. On the other hand, the Canadians will play the final against the winner between Cruz Azul and Tigres, both from Mexico.

Inter Miami opened the scoring in its first danger play. In eight minutes, Lionel Messi He handled the ball in the middle and played for the attacker Luis Suarez, who reopened for the climb of Jordi Alba. The Spanish defender took a low shot to the first stick that became 1-0.

Only a minute later, Messi recovered a ball and led a counterattack in which he opened the ball to the right, for the advance of the Argentine end Tadeo Allende, whose shot was contained by goalkeeper Yohei Takaoka.

Vancouver’s first arrival was 12 minutes. An error at the bottom of the defender Maximiliano Falcón allowed the left upside down Brian White, who put a good search center for striker Emmanuel Sabbi, whose shot he gave on the left stick of goalkeeper Oscar Ustari.

Two minutes passed and the visit came again, with an appearance on the left and later auction to the first stick of White, which was arrested by the Argentine goalkeeper.

In 18 minutes, a good center of former Boca Marcelo Weigandt allowed the header, in the first stick, of the Fablasco Segovia striker, which was contained in the opposite post by Takaoka.

The premises returned to 40 minutes, with a free kick from the left side of the Messi area, which left high but centralized and was diverted by the Japanese goalkeeper.

Vancouver tied five minutes after the second part. A good filtering pass enabled midfielder Sebastián Berhalter, who was free to go up on the left and put the center back for White’s goal.

Only two minutes later, the Canadian team traced the result. After a new filtered pass behind Weigandt’s backs, the end Ali Ahmed overflowed on the left and put a ceremony that, after some rebounds, allowed the auction of the end of Pedro Vite, which deviated in Jordi Alba and became the 2-1.

The first arrival of the “Garzas” was at 17 minutes of the second half, with a good deep pass from Alba on the left that enabled Suárez’s run. The Uruguayan put a low shot to the second stick that went a few centimeters from the post.

The fourth goal of the night reached 25 minutes of the second half, with an error at the exit of the Benjamín Cremaschi steering wheel that ended, after a blocked shot of striker Daniel Ríos, at Berhalter’s feet, which beat Ustari with a dry and low shot.

Three minutes later, the Argentine Allende drove the ball a few meters from the area and took out a powerful shot from a central area, which left high and crashed in the crossbar of a Takooka who had no chance of reacting.

Messi frightened the rival defense at 33 minutes, with a good individual play that concluded with a cross shot from the edge of the area that went near the second stick.

The last was from Inter, at 44 minutes, with a change in front and center of Jordi Alba that was received by Messi, within the area, but the auction of the Argentine star was barely diverted.

Source: Ambito

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