Describing what happened this Friday – Saturday in Spain – in Fort Lauderdale is quite complicated, because beyond everything that Lionel Messi generates and his arrival at Inter Miami, the world champion in Qatar 2022 showed that he comes to bring joy to fans of the David Beckham franchise. The new number ’10′ of Las Garzas scored a great goal from a free kick to give his team 1-2 at DRV PNK Stadium and, with it, they added their first three points in the Leagues Cup.
Despite not having started in the match held in Florida, Messi came onto the pitch in the second half, when the score was 0-1 in favor of Inter. He barely jumped to make pre-competitive movements at the beginning of the complementary part and the fans of the club did not stop cheering, singing his name and encouraging him to adapt as quickly as possible to his new city; The man from Rosario responded to this with a greeting and later took off his warm-up jacket.
He entered in minute 54 and the entire stadium fell to applaud his new figure, who made his debut at the same time as Sergio Busquets, his eternal teammate at FC Barcelona. The first touches of the ball gave us an incredible understanding between the ’10’ and the ‘5’, so those present at the DRV PNK Stadium could only applaud and express their astonishment.
Although Uriel Antuna put all this excitement on hold with a great goal that slipped through Drake Callender’s net, the Inter Miami fans were quick to shake off and surrender to the world champion once again. The most striking thing about all this is that both Messi and Busquets did not hesitate to take the reins of their new team and together they encouraged all their teammates to go to the front to win.
Great goal from Messi and triumph for Inter
In added time of the game, Las Garzas found themselves with a free kick less than 25 meters from the visitor’s goal, so all those present in the building were already aware of the person who would come to execute the collection of the direct free kick. Lionel Messi took the ball, took a few steps back and at the moment when the referee indicated that he could shoot, he was in charge of blowing up the DRV PNK Stadium.
The mythical number ’10’ of Barcelona and the Argentine National Team sent the ball over the Cruz Azul barrier and later it ended up getting into the back of the net. The goal was impressive, it’s true, but Lionel Messi is already beginning to make a difference for Inter Miami and all his fans enjoyed it at home.