Messi, with a hat trick, scored 90 goals with Inter Miami in the 5-3 over Cincinnati
Lionel Messi looked like his best times with a treblet, an assist to beat 5-3 Cincinnati and regain second place in the MLS East
Lionel Messi, 28 days to the start of the 2026 World Cup, showed that he is at a level like in his best epochs by headlining the show where he was dispatched with a “hat trick” that allowed him to score his 90 goal in 102 appearances with Inter Miami to beat 5-3 at Cincinnati.
A spectacular triumph in the TQL Stadium, home of the Ohio team, where there was everything, from Messi's show with his treble, an assist from the Argentine star and a goal from Mexican Germán Berterame until the entry of a spontaneous trying to take a selfie with the famous “Pulga”.
The victory allowed the team led by Guillermo Hoyos to recover sub-leadership of the Eastern Conference of the Major League Soccer (ML S) with 25 points, three units above New England Revolution, which lost to the leader of that sector, Nashville, which reached 27 units.
Messi opened the account very early in the match when he took a shot to fit the ball into the goal of the host's team, but the joy was wiped from their faces Very quickly when Cincinnati reacted with authority to regain control of the match with goals from Kevin Denkey and Pavel Bucha, in what would be a give-and-take duel.
Cincinnati believed that Inter Miami would be overwhelmed by being down on the score, but suddenly Messi at minute 55 made 2-2, but the draw local at minute 64, through Xande Silva Ferreira, signed the 3-2 that seemed to sentence the fate of the Miami team before the closure.
But there Mateo Silvetti appeared at 79 to get the 3-3 and with this motivate the Herons to continue insisting in search of victory, the which were building with the 4-3 scored by the Mexican Germán Berterame, who turned history for the 4-3 in the 84th minute.
Thus they left the tambourine ready for at minute 89 Messi appeared to seal his hat-trick with a right definition after another bu in a collective play. With this result, the “10” reached the brutal number of 90 goals with the pink shirt in barely 102 presentations.
Messi's last goal in some places was credited to the goalkeeper of the local team, Roman Celentano, but no doubt the work was by arg entino, which sealed a great night for the Argentine star who, as the old saying says, improves like good wines with older age.