By Edgardo Avelar
The Uruguayan Luis Suarez, with a goal eight minutes from time, he prevented Austin FC from ruining the premiere of the NU Stadium, the new home of the InterMiami, with a 2-2 tie in a duel where the Texan team surprised the Herons throughout the 90 minutes to get a valuable result.
The goal of the Uruguayan Suárez prevented the spectacular celebration in the first game of the new venue of the valid champion of the Main League Soccer (MLS) was negative when there were more than 20,000 fans.
The night revolved, perhaps too much, around the inauguration of the stadium, an event for which Inter Miami spared no effort and which hoped to put the icing on the cake with a spectacular victory, but Austin FC took the role of villain with two goals that put the Garzas in trouble.
The party featured a performance of singer Marc Anthony’s anthem, fireworks and a few words from the club’s co-founders, brothers Jorge and José Mas and David Beckham, who delayed the start of the match by half an hour.
On the field, all the directors of Inter Miami, led by the owner Jorge Maz and the franchise partner, the former England star David Beckham, who gave solemnity to the opening ceremony.
Inter Miami fans hoped that, led by Lionel Messi, the Florida team would have a spectacular debut in this modern setting.but from the 5th minute the sandwiches and champagne began to have a taste with the first goal of the game scored by Guilherme da Trindade Dubas when he took advantage of the fact that he had no mark and hit a header that sent the ball into the back of the St. Claire goal.
The first half was not at all smooth for the Garzas team, especially because, even with Messi’s tying goal five minutes laterthey really couldn’t settle into their new headquarters and even the Texans They were close to taking a two-goal lead due to a penalty that the referee failed to score.
Messi came to the rescue
Inter Miami had to turn to Lionel Messi to save the Herons on the first occasion that Austin FC took the lead, and they did so five minutes after the scoring opened and they did so by anticipating three defenders and through a header, they tied the score.
But Messi on the other side also had a hand in Austin FC’s second goalsince he lost a ball that caused the counterattack in which Jayden Nelson closed the clamp, but then the Argentine star He sought to make up for his mistake with a free kick in the 59th minute that whizzed past Austin’s left post.
Afterwards, the so-called Flea almost gave Tadeo Allende a penalty in the 63rd minutebut unfortunately for him, the Argentine bit the ball and could not send it into the back of the visitor’s goal. Messi kept his pace and in the 66th minute he almost scored a great goal by avoiding two rivals and sending a shot that covered the defense, like this Like in the 75th minute he hit a left footed shot that almost hit the visitors’ goal..
But when it seemed that Inter Miami was resigned to a defeat, Luis Suárez appeared to score a shot that made the fans who gathered at the premiere of the NU Stadium explode with joy and although he later scored another goal with a shot against Messi’s crossbar, it was disallowed when he scored the counter-shot; In the end, the Uruguayan scored a valuable 2-2 draw.
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