The experienced stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez took Inter Miami to the 8ths. Finally of the FIFA 2025 Club World Cup, a pleasant surprise that drives the Major League Soccer (MLS) of the United States that manages to register a team of yours among the 16 best teams on the planet football.
It was just ten minutes, but they changed everything. Two goals from the Brazilian Palmeiras in the final stretch tied a game that Inter Miami thought to have cattle. Although both classify the eighths, the Brazilian insistence had a prize: the group’s leadership and avoid Paris Saint-Germain (PSG).
The final 2-2 leaves the first palmeiras of Group A with 5 points, and will face the Botafogo, also from Brazil, also next Saturday, June 28 (12 PM ET) in the Lincoln Financial Field, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A day later, on Sunday, June 29 (12 PM ET), Inter Miami will play against the PSG. It will be Leo Messi’s reunion with his former team, and that of Coach Luís Enrique with several of his former pupils in Barcelona.
The Brazilians Paulinho and Mauricio are blame, who, when few believed, scored two goals in the 80th minute and in 88 respectively, to match an exhibition of Uruguayan Luis Suárez, who had created a goal and scored another minutes before.
The outcome had little to do with what was seen during much of the game, when Inter Miami and Palmeiras played with the calculator in their hand during the 90 minutes, knowing that they depended on themselves to pass the phase and that a tie – and even a defeat – could use them.
None wanted the game to get out of control, and among long possessions that barely ended the ball in one of the two areas, it was Inter Miami who first hit a good against finalized by Argentine striker Tadeo Allende.
A high clearance of the American rear, which fell near the midfield the “charrúa” Suárez after struggling with his score, left completely only to the gaucho end. Ahead was 50 meters, free of rival players, to think about how I wanted to define before goalkeeper Weverton. It did not fail.
Inter Miami was first, but Palmeiras was still classified, so the alarm signal did not jump. The rhythm remained rather leisurely, although the failures in ball outlet and counterattacks generated a certain sense of danger that never culminated.
A possession of several minutes of Inter Miami, in which the ball passed from one defense to another without the intention of danger, was the way that the American team had to say that it was its rival who had to press. They were the group’s leaders at that time.
Perhaps because of the fear of crossing the PSG or for the fear of a groove of Porto in the other group of the group, the Palmeiras came out more horny in the second half. But again it was Allende who had it to put the second on the scoreboard.
A great individual career led him to the small area of Weverton, but chlorinated and with much less angle than in the first one he did not succeed. The game was played in the field of Inter Miami, but the danger was generated in the goal of Palmeiras.
First it was Messi who warned with two shots from outside the area, to each more dangerous, and ended up being Suárez who scored the second. He left 3 defenses behind a new individual play, more common in his time in Europe than in America, to beat the Paulista goalkeeper with a great definition above.
Suarez was setting a great game, and was about to leave the third in tray to Messi with a long pass to which the Argentine star did not arrive by very little. It was his last service to the meeting before being replaced.
With 2-0 Inter Miami was already almost 100 % classified. The Palmeiras, meanwhile, had a friend in the Egyptians of Al Ahly, who prevented the porto from getting ahead in his encounter and threatening the classification of Brazilians.
A long succession of changes killed the rhythm of the game and seemed to leave the determined group, but Paulinho did not agree and discounted for the Brazilians a good pass from Allan to the middle of the front from the front left him alone in front of Ustari and hit it rush next to the stick. The Brazilian fans entered delirium, it was still available to avoid the PSG in the round of 16.
Just eight minutes later, Mauricio unleashed the Brazilian party with a powerful shot before which Oscar Ustari could do. The Palmeiras came to have a third that would not have changed the group but would have given him the victory. He played with fire for 80 minutes, but in 10 minutes he managed to solve it.
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Thus they aligned
– Inter Miami (2): Óscar Ustari; Marcelo Weigandt, Maximiliano Falcón, Tomás Avilés, Noah Allen; Tadeo Allende (Fafa Picault, m.77), Sergio Busquets, Federico Redondo (Baltasar Rodríguez, m.77), Fablasco Segovia (Jordi Alba, m.66); Leo Messi and Luis Suarez (Benja Creamchi, m.74).
– Coach: Javier Mascherano.
– Palmeiras (2): Weverton; Marcos Rocha (Allan, M.67), Gustavo Gómez, Murilo (Bruno Fuchs, m.18), Joaquín Piquerez; Richard Ríos, Lucas Evangelista (Vitor Roque, M.67); Estêvão, F. Torres (Paulinho, m.55); Raphael Veiga (Mauricio, m.46), José Manuel López.
– Coach: Abel Ferreira.
– Goals: 1-0, m.16: Tadeo Allende; 2-0, m. 65 Luis Suárez; 2-1 m.80 Paulinho. 2-2 m.88 Mauricio.
– Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland). He admonished Messi (m.45+1) of Inter Miami.
– Incidents: FIFA Club World Cup group game played at the Miami (Florida) Hard Rock Stadiuml (Florida) before 60,914 spectators.
(With report by Hugo Barcia, from EFE)
