Lionel Messi returned to the score sheet for Inter Miami on Sunday, measuring the team’s draw in the first half of his MLS game against Toronto FC thanks to an impressive blow with his left foot.
Tablasco Segovia makes its way around Toronto’s defense in the fifth minute of the first half arrest time before passing the ball to Messi to the edge of the penalty area. The World Cup winner took a touch and let the ball bounce so she could get control of it while going down. From there, Messi turned his body and hit the ball tightly with his left foot and quickly sent it to the lower right corner of the goal.
Take a look at the goal below, which gave them a point in a 1-1 draw.
Before the goal entered, Gonzalo Lujan de Miami was suspected of committing a handball, but the referee team did not review the event.
Messi’s goal scored a quick answer after Miami admitted the game opening goal only three minutes before. Toronto, the second team at the Eastern Conference, managed to play a first competitive half with Miami and scored first thanks to Federico Bernardoeschi.
Miami beat Toronto 12-8 in the first half, but visitors achieved more significant score opportunities, surpassing the winners of the supporters of 2024 1.88 to 0.49 in the expected objectives. That does not mean that Miami was without his opportunities: about 20 minutes before Messi scored, he put the ball at the bottom of the network, but the goal was discarded due to a foul during the play.
The strike was the third of the Messi season in the MLS and the sixth in all competitions.
