The Argentine Lionel Messi increased on Saturday, April 27 His streak of consecutive games scoring in MLS is six and led with a double and an assist to the Uruguayan Luis Suárez the 4-1 victory of the leader Inter Miami in the field of the New England Revolution.
Messi signed his second consecutive doublethe third of his season, and surpassed the Colombian Cristian ‘Chicho’ Arango as the top scorer in the MLS at the start of the season.
The Argentine has eleven in this campaign, since to the nine in the MLS he added two in the Concacaf Champions League.
Luis Suárez, who started as a substitute, sealed the victory with a 4-1 victory after Benjamín Cremaschi scored the third goal. Argentine Tomás Chancalay had excited New England, bottom of the East.
He Inter Miami is in charge of that same conference with 21 points in eleven games.
More than 65 thousand spectators came to Gillette Stadium despite the fact that the Revolution arrived at the bottom, encouraged by the visit of Leo Messi.
And, as had already happened a week ago in the match won against Nashville, the match could not have started worse for Inter Miami. Nicolás Freire failed in the ball release phase and gave the ball to the Revolution. He lost his mark on Chancalay, who received a long pass and beat Drake Callender with an excellent shot.
Less than 40 seconds had passed and the Revolution was already able to make the score 1-0. However, the reaction of Inter Miami, in which Suárez started as a substitute and the Ecuadorian Leonardo Campana was a starter, carried Messi’s name.
The Argentine received a through ball from Robbie Taylor, controlled the ball in the area and scored with his left foot to celebrate his sixth consecutive goal in MLS.
In the second half ‘Tata’ Martino gave way to Luis Suárez and Inter Miami completed the comeback in the 68th minute, when Sergio Busquets found a great passing line for Messi, who once again beat the rival goalkeeper at will to increase the score to 2-1.
With Inter Miami ahead, Martino also made his debut for Paraguayan Matías Rojas, a former Racing Club and Corinthians player, who was incorporated on the last day of the MLS transfer market.
Revolution lost Nacho Gil in the last minutes due to a physical problem and Inter Miami ended up scoring with goals from Benjamín Cremaschi, who finished inside the area after the goal was rebound from a shot by Messi and Suárez.
El Pistolero took advantage of a comfortable assist from Messi and crossed the shot with his right foot to celebrate his seventh goal in the MLS.
Thus, Messi’s offensive contribution in the current MLS season is nine goals and seven assists, a total record since only he would have achieved it in just 7 games. This is because according to Forbes, MLS is one of the few leagues that counts assists differently. “La Liga remains one of the only competitions on the planet that awards secondary assists, in which the penultimate player to touch the ball before the scorer also receives official credit“, Explain.
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