This time there was no smile for Lionel Messi. While recovering from the injury he suffered exactly a month ago in the Copa América final with the Argentine National Team, the Rosario star suffered with the elimination of the Inter Miami of the Leagues Cupthe competition that brings together teams from the Mexican League and the MLS, and which the Florida team had won last season, being the first title of its short history. The match in Ohio had incredible overtones, because those led by Gerardo Martino won 2-0but Columbus Crew -current MLS champion- turned it around to reach the quarterfinals.
The Pink Herons had gone ahead thanks to the goals of the Paraguayans Matias Rojas y Diego Gomez. It was a big and justified difference for Inter Miami, which from its offensive order and hierarchy made a difference that seemed definitive.
But Columbus, with temperament and personality, found quick equality with two goals in two minutes, through Ramírez and the Uruguayan Diego Rossithe same protagonist of the third goal, that of his team’s classification and the elimination of Inter Miami, which had the Argentines Toto Aviles, Federico Redondo y Marcelo Weigandt as headlines, while Benjamin Cremaschi entered the plugin.
Messi, meanwhile, remains absent in clear recovery from his serious sprained right ankle, which forced him to use a boot to immobilize the area as much as possible and also miss these decisive matches for his team. In fact, the rumor was that he would be available for the Leagues Cup final on August 25, if his team arrived.
With the match already given over to a non-stop back-and-forth, the Columbus Crew had the fourth in hand but neither Rossi, Ramírez nor Jacen Russell-Rowe were precise.
Inter Miami gave everything until the end and Suárez and Benjamín Cremaschi were on the verge of equalizing the match in stoppage time to take it to penalties, but the Columbus Crew raised their arms after a huge comeback.
Now this elimination is good news for the Argentine National Team, because the guns will point to him being available for Lionel Scaloni when the Albiceleste faces Chile as a local (September 5) and Colombia as a visitor (September 10) on the next double date of the South American Qualifiers towards the 2026 World Cup in the United States.
Inter Miami will thus not be able to defend the Leagues Cup title that it won in 2023 and now it only has to fight for the MLS, where it is the leader of the Eastern Conference and which could be the path that leads it to the Club World Cup extra large which will be held in July and July of next year – also – in the United States.
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