Messi se enlarge y falla penal en la derrota del Inter Miami 3-0 con Charlotte
Lionel Messi miscalculated when chipping the ball in a Panenka-style penalty, giving it to the Charlotte goalkeeper in Inter Miami's 3-0 defeat
Lionel Messi showed once again that he is human and that stars often make mistakes as happened this Saturday at the Bank of America Stadium when he gave the Charlotte goalkeeper the penalty that was decisive in Inter Miami's 3-0 defeat.
Indeed, the leader of the Argentine national team took the ball and charged it in the style of the Hungarian "Panenka" bouncing the ball, believing that the home team's goalkeeper, Kristijan Kahlina was going to give in, but he stood firm stopping the ball sent by the South American.
This marked the course of the actions where the Charlotte team ended up running over Messi's eleven, which when the Argentine doesn't perform on his day becomes an ordinary team that usually resorts to this type of performances where they ended up falling 3-0.
The reality is that Inter Miami showed a lot of weakness after the return of the FIFA date and the last straw was that Messi also seemed a little rusty in a game where the penalty missed by the Argentine star marked the course of a game where everything seemed to be going better for the eleven led by the Argentine Javier Mascherano.
The details
Without a doubt, the difference in the score was the penalty kick, especially because it was difficult for the Garzas to generate dangerous actions in the absence of Luis Suarez, the forward who was suspended for spitting at Mexican Obed Vargas at the end of the decisive match of the Leagues Cup against the Seattle Sounders.
The sanction was part of a harsh sanction imposed on the Uruguayan, since in the next edition of the Leagues Cup, the so-called Pistolero will have to serve a six-game suspension due to this serious foul against the Washington squad.
Now, with Messi's error, Inter Miami could not take the lead due to the Panenka-style penalty miss that opened the way to victory with Toklomati's first goal. The rest was sewing and weaving for the home team with the two more goals from the Israeli.The 2-0 at the restart of the second half and the 3-0 at minute 84 put the final nail in the coffin for Inter Miami.
This puts Charlotte third in the East, behind the Philadelphia Union, while Inter Miami is seventh, with 46 points at the time when MLS is defining the teams that will fight for the title of the current tournament.