Superstar Lionel Messi’s second-half goal helped Inter Miami have the largest margin of victory in American soccer team history.

Lionel Messi and Inter Miami created a rain of goals against rival Orlando City, in which the Argentine star scored twice in the second half to help Inter Miami win 5-0. According to statistics, this is the largest margin of victory in the 5-year history of the club from Florida.

Messi now has 3 goals in the season, equal to DC United’s Christian Benteke and is currently leading the MLS 2024 top scorer list. Particularly, the 2 goals in the match against Orlando City brought special emotions to Messi.

Specifically, Messi’s goal scored with his chest, increasing the score to 4-0 for Inter Miami in the 57th minute, was the second goal scored with his chest… in this famous player’s entire career. Similar was the goal scored with a header just 5 minutes later. It’s been a long time since fans saw Messi head a goal, since the last time he did so in a Barcelona shirt in May 2021.

Up to now, Messi and his teammates after 3 matches in MLS have scored 8 goals and conceded 1 goal. Defeating their state rival Florida with a big score, Inter Miami maintained the top spot in the Eastern rankings in MLS 2024 with 7 points after 3 matches.

Surely the goals of Messi and his teammates this season will be much bigger. A title in MLS will certainly be the goal that Inter Miami aims to affirm the club’s position. Inter Miami’s next challenge will be Nashville at the CONCACAF Club Championship taking place at 3:00 a.m. on March 8.

Messi shared after the match: “We are feeling very good and enjoying the excitement of the matches. Inter Miami is still progressing. Today is an important match that we need to win.” win to continue that path of development. The truth is that this match has helped us become very strong, ready for everything to come.

Everyone knows that Inter Miami has enough ability to compete for titles in the MLS tournament. So we will try to compete. We must continue to maintain this good start to make progress for the team. Because there will be a pause in the near future, then we have to continue to come back like this before entering the Copa America and then the Leagues Cup.”