{"id":102799,"date":"2025-08-28T08:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102799\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T08:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T08:12:06","slug":"lionel-messi-masterclass-sends-inter-miami-to-leagues-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102799\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi masterclass sends Inter Miami to Leagues Cup final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Messi bagged a second-half brace on his return from injury, and Telasco Segovia<\/a> iced the match in stoppage time to ensure the 2023 Leagues Cup champions will visit Seattle Sounders FC<\/a> for the Aug. 31 final. The result also guaranteed the Herons’ place in the 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Messi pulled Miami level in the 77th minute from the penalty spot, beating Pedro Gallese<\/a> after the Lions were reduced to 10 men when David Brekalo<\/a> was shown a second yellow card for pulling down Tadeo Allende<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Miami went ahead in the 88th minute when Messi combined with fellow FC Barcelona legend Jordi Alba<\/a> inside the 18-yard box before slotting past Gallese. Adding to the euphoria, Segovia completed a give-and-go with Luis Su\u00e1rez<\/a> (91′) to provide some breathing room.<\/p>\n

Orlando’s opener came in first-half stoppage time, as Marco Pa\u0161ali\u0107<\/a> smashed home from inside the 18-yard box. But the visitors couldn’t hold on, and will now look to secure a CCC spot when visiting LA Galaxy<\/a> in the Third-Place Match on Aug. 31.<\/p>\n

\n Goals<\/p>\n

45+1′ – ORL – Marco Pa\u0161ali\u0107 | WATCH<\/a>
\n77′ – MIA – Lionel Messi (PK) | WATCH<\/a>
\n88′ – MIA – Lionel Messi | WATCH<\/a>
\n90+1′- MIA – Telasco Segovia | WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Messi bagged a second-half brace on his return from injury, and Telasco Segovia iced the match in stoppage…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,567,59212,59211,59213,24859,24855,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-102799","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-inter-miami-cf","11":"tag-leagues-cup","12":"tag-match-reaction","13":"tag-miavsorl-08-27-2025","14":"tag-orlando-city-sc","15":"tag-sendtonews","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}