2024-03-08 05:13:38
Messi has a God who cares for him, proof of this is the first leg of the Concacaf Champions Cup against Nashville, where the Argentine was the victim of kicks that could have caused an injury to the world champion in Qatar 2022. One of those fouls It went viral on social media.
At 77 minutes, Lukas Macnaughton, central defender of the team led by Gary Smith, cleared the ball, but left his foot up, ironing the Argentine and causing the hearts of millions of fans around the world to stop for a few minutes.
Despite the action, the Mexican whistler Marco Antonio Órtiz did not show the red card to the local team’s defender, nor even admonished him, and the VAR did not consider that the action was worthy of an expulsion.
The Nashville player wanted to apologize to Messi, the star after having been treated by the club’s doctors, disapproved of the infraction with a gesture and showed his anger with the player and the referee. However, it did not go further and Messi was able to finish the duel.
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The Tata puts out the fire
Despite the infraction that Messi received and that the Argentine finished the game with ice on his leg, the club’s coach, Tata Martino, put out the fire by pointing out that the attacker was fine.
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“Regarding Leo, he finished the match well, tired, fatigue in the later stages, something logical and that’s why the massages, but he finished well,” Martino said at the press conference at the end of the match.
Inter Miami and Messi will return to activity next Sunday when they have to face CF Montréal in the MLS. It is still unknown if the strategist will rest some figures thinking about the return against Nashville.
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