By ALANIS THAMES
FORT LAUDERDALE — Lionel Messi prolonged his historic streak to 5 straight multi-goal video games, and Inter Miami snapped Nashville SC’s 15-match unbeaten streak with a 2-1 win on Saturday night time.
Miami (11-3-5) received its fifth straight match and moved to fifth within the Supporter’s Defend standings because it goals to win the title for the second-straight season.
Messi entered Saturday’s match as the one participant in Main League Soccer historical past with 4 straight multi-goal video games after scoring two in Miami’s win over the New England Revolution on Wednesday.
And he wasn’t carried out.
The 38-year-old opened the scoring Saturday on a free kick within the seventeenth minute. Then after Nashville tied it early within the second half, Messi put his facet again on prime with a steal and rating within the 62nd.
Messi now has 16 targets in 16 MLS matches this season, which is tied with Nashville’s Sam Surridge (16 targets in 21 matches) for many within the league.
Nashville (12-5-5), which had received 5 straight getting into the match, had jumped to 3rd within the Supporter’s Defend Standings throughout its unbeaten streak that went again to mid-April throughout all competitions. It was additionally the longest lively streak of its type in MLS and Nashville’s greatest stretch in its six-season membership historical past.
On his first aim, Messi bent a low free kick by way of Nashville’s wall of defenders — a spectacular kick from the nine-time Ballon d’Or winner that gave him 55 targets in 66 Inter Miami matches.
Hany Mukhtar scored the equalizer early within the second half. Andy Nájar despatched a cross into the field that Mukhtar headed previous Oscar Ustari to tie the match within the forty ninth.
Messi then scored with ease after capitalizing on a gaffe by Nashville goalkeeper Joe Willis, who mistakenly made a go on to Messi for the go-ahead rating.
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