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Lionel Messi's MLS season ends with Inter Miami loss to Charlotte FC Messi performs entirety of Miami's season finale on synthetic turf Argentinian supermegacelebrity finishes with eleven desires in 14 fits on season Charlotte FC qualify for MLS playoffs with 1-zero victory at home Lionel Messi performed the whole recreation on synthetic turf in Inter Miami’s season finale on Saturday night time and Charlotte FC certified for the MLS playoffs with a 1-zero victory. Messi shared the highlight with Charlotte’s bid to qualify for the postseason at the final day of the everyday season in a recreation that drew 66,one hundred and one at Charlotte’s 74,000-seat Bank of America Stadium. Messi, who led Argentina to the 2022 World Cup title, become the clean drawing card, and lots in attendance have been decorated in Messi No 10 shirts. The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner because the world’s pinnacle participant went the space withinside the meaningless recreation for Miami, who had already been removed from playoff contention. He completed with 3 pictures and had scoring chances. Messi’s obvious intention withinside the forty ninth minute become negated via way of means of an offside call, and his shot withinside the 62nd minute bounded off the crossbar.

 

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Messi had eleven desires in 14 fits with Miami this season. The crew become winless in his very last six league fits (3 losses, 3 attracts) and had 4 wins, 4 losses and 4 attracts withinside the league for the reason that he joined the crew in mid-July. 

Messi, who scored two times for Argentina of their 2-zero World Cup qualifying win at Peru on Tuesday night time and did now no longer play day after today in a make-up recreation in opposition to Charlotte, did now no longer deal with the media after the recreation.  He had one media availability in a half-season with crew, on 17 August. 

Charlotte introduced for his or her fans. The 2d-yr franchise wished a victory over Miami and assist from different effects to assert one of the  final Eastern Conference playoff spots in a scramble of 5 teams.  The Chicago Fire and CF Montreal misplaced in advance Saturday and that allowed Charlotte to clinch a playoff berth with a victory.

Kerwin Vargas’ intention withinside the thirteenth minute become sufficient to seal the anciental victory, and Charlotte held Miami with out a intention down the stretch in a season wherein it has yielded many late-recreation desires.  

Charlotte will end the 2023 season 2d in league attendance; Charlotte FC have been averaging 33,634 coming into Saturday’s everyday-season finale.

“I knew it become due to the fact Messi become in town,” Charlotte FC instruct Christian Lattanzio stated of the massive crowd. “The extra they arrive to look us they'll see we will play toe-to-toe with the excellent withinside the world.

“I’m very, very pleased with the boys. They had been operating very, very hard.”

Messi is predicted to play in Inter Miami’s colorations on five and eight November, whilst the crew performs  exhibition fits in China. It could be the primary time Inter Miami is going on a overseas tour. Argentina then has extra World Cup qualifiers on sixteen and 21 November – and then Messi ought to get an prolonged damage earlier than Inter Miami start getting ready for 2024.

Inter Miami CF instruct Gerardo Martino stated his crew completed the season wearied via way of means of its heavy schedule.

“We had 3 tournaments and received one,” Martino stated thru a translator. “The crew become exhausted. That’s no excuse. That’s the reality.”  Source: The Guardian newspaper