By Edgardo Avelar
Lionel Messi, 28 days before the start of the 2026 World Cup, he showed that he is at a level like in his best times by leading the characterize where he finished with a hat trick that allowed him to score his 90th goal in 102 appearances with Inter Miami to beat 5-3 Cincinnati.
A spectacular victory at the TQL Stadium, home of the Ohio team, where there was everything, from Messi’s characteristic with his hat trick, an assist from the Argentine star and a goal from the Mexican Germán Berterame until the entry of a spontaneous person trying to take a selfie with the famous “Flea”.
The victory allowed the team led by Guillermo Hoyos to regain the sub-leadership of the Eastern Conference of the Important League Soccer (MLS) with 25 points, three units above Fresh England Revolution, which lost to the leader of that sector, Nashvillewhich reached 27 units.
Messi opened the account very early in the match when he took advantage of a shot to slot the ball into the host team’s goal, pBut the joy faded from their faces very quickly when Cincinnati reacted with the authority to regain control of the match with goals from Kevin Denkey and Pavel Bucha, in what would be a duel of give and take.
Cincinnati believed that Inter Miami would be overwhelmed by being behind on the scoreboard, but suddenly Messi in the 55th minute made it 2-2, but the native team in the 64th minute, through Xande Silva Ferreira, he signed the 3-2 that seemed to sentence the fate of the Miami team before the closing.
But Mateo Silvetti appeared in the 79th minute to make it 3-3 and with this motivate the Herons to continue insisting in search of victory, which they built with the 4-3 scored by the Mexican Germán Berterame, who turned history around to make it 4-3 in the 84th minute.
Thus they left the tambourine ready for Messi to appear in the 89th minute to seal his hat-trick with a right-footed finish after another good team play. With this result, the “10” reached the brutal figure of 90 goals with the pink shirt in just 102 appearances.
In some places, Messi’s last goal was credited to the goalkeeper of the native team, Roman Celentano, but without a doubt the work was from the Argentine, which thus sealed a great night for the Argentine star who, As the old saying goes, it gets better like good wines the older they are..
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