The Argentine world champion of 2022 and his team loses the second leg against Vancouver 1: 3.
Lionel Messi has to bury his dream of the first international title win with Inter Miami. The team failed in the semi-finals of the Concacaf Champions Cup in the night on Thursday, against the Vancouver Whitecaps it set a 1: 3 defeat. The Canadians had already won the first leg 2-0 a week ago.
Messi and Co. had caught a good start to the game. In the ninth minute, the Argentine world champion from 2022 forwarded the ball to his former Barca teammate Luis Suárez, who served Jordi Alba – also once Messi -Mit player at the Blaugrana. But after the Spaniard’s goal, the Whitecaps turned the game with three goals in the second half.
“Even if it was the first time that the club moved into the semi-finals, the defeat hurts a lot,” said Miami’s coach Javier Mascherano, who also played together with Messi in Barcelona and in the Argentine national team during his professional career. At Miami, after the end of the Champions Cup, the domestic league MLS, where the team is in the top field of the Eastern Conference after nine games, and the club World Cup in summer.
Vancouver now meets the winner of the duel between the Mexican club Cruz Azul and Tigres Uanl in the final of the Champions Cup, which will determine the second final participant on Thursday after a 1-1 in the first leg.