In life as in football, not everything that shines is gold and the Inter Miami CF fulfils the letter with that maximum, since, despite being the most expensive franchise of the Major League Soccer (MLS), it has only won one game in the last eight games played after matching 1-1 with Chicago Fire.
Now with a record entry in the Soldier Field of the City of the Winds with 63,096 people, the squad of the Garzas could not go back with authority to record a disappointing draw with goals from Polish Robert Lewandowski for the local squad and Brazilian Casemiro for the visitors.
Messi to Casemiro! ?Three-straight games with an @InterMiamiCF goal for Casemiro. ?? pic.twitter.com/cps9Ore3x1
And it is that the multimillionaire steering wheel of the ensemble of the Garzas seems to have lost the north at the most inopportune moment of the championship. Despite walking through the fields of the United States with the most ostentative salary in the history of the league, the reality is that the Florida ship sails to the drift and with the engine broken, delivering key points that today have them against the strings in the fight for the first places.
The match fell like a kick in the stomach for the Florida squad. They had the gold chance to put pressure on the Eastern Conference leader, Nashville, who in the middle of the week stumbled ugly at Toronto.
If they had added three, Miami would have been stoned with only seven units, but the lack of contundence left them dancing with the ugliest, stuck at nine points away and with time on top, because precisely this Saturday they will see the faces against the leaders in the Nu Stadium.
The Soldier Field witnessed a shock with coloured tints of nostalgia. For the first time in the MLS, Lionel Messi, the 39-year-old genius, and the Polish breaker Robert Lewandowski, who at his 38-year-old arrived this summer to command the Chicago attack, met.
Between both the colossals and Uruguay’s Luis Suárez, they added to the pitch the scary figure of more than 2,300 goals in active, a pure dynamite that was greeted with an emotional embrace in the tunel of garments before the war was declared on the lawn.
Casemiro heads it home for the equalizer. ?? pic.twitter.com/7O2wr2cAyz
It was the Polish striker who shook the networks first just in the 10th minute, signing the 1-0 with a lethal squad rightback after a measured center of Andrew Gutman that left the visiting squad frozen.
The Garzas reacted with rage and monopolized the gays with an overwhelming 62% possession, unleashing a shooting of nine shots, including five attempts by Messi. However, Fire shooter Chris Brady dressed himself as a hero and dropped the curtain with three cut-offs in the first half.
The Miami equalizer arrived by kicking off the complement and by the “airfire” route.At the 48th minute, the Amazonian Casemiro rose in the area to connect a solid front after a corner cut from the “Pulga”.
The Brazilian ex-Manchester United goes on fire with his head, adding his third goal to the thread by that way. Interestingly, Messi filed his second duel without mowing the powder, keeping the feasts he wasted a few weeks ago in the goal against Montreal.
From the bench, interim strategist Guillermo Hoyos — who takes care of Kily Gonzalez’s position while he arranges his work visa — repeated the same eleven that he equaled against Atlanta. In the face of Sergio Reguilón’s injury, Ecuadorian 18-year-old Fricio Caicedo repeated as the left side.
What a save from Brady to deny Berterame ?? Apple TV: https://t.co/WJWizbK6eb pic.twitter.com/aUOQFVNqIl
The irony of fate became present in the central Chicago with Noah Allen, the record-breaking man of Miami appearances, who just left the Fire for a $3 million transfer that will be charged in 2027; the canteen did not have pity on his ex-companions and complicated their existence by cutting key danger games.
The rest of the artillery that commanded Miami to the wheel was formed by Dayne St. Louis. Clair in the arch, Ian Fray on the right side, Maxi Falcón making a pair with Casemiro, and a half-field populated by Rodrigo De Paul, Yannick Bright and Telasco Segovia, leaving the attack on the botins of Suárez, Messi and Germán Berterame.
The heavyweights are going at it and Lewandowski hits first. ? pic.twitter.com/XmEttvXxGo
In the end, the Fire stretched out six matches without biting the dust, while the Inter Miami continues to sink into a bowl where it has barely rescued a triumph in its last six leagues, strangling with urgency those afternoons where they scratched out in the MLS.
