{"id":876741,"date":"2026-08-30T07:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876741\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T07:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:06:14","slug":"lionel-messi-scores-4-goals-final-box-score-stats-highlights-as-inter-miami-beats-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/876741\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi Scores 4 Goals, Final Box Score Stats & Highlights as Inter Miami Beats Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lionel Messi was unstoppable during Inter Miami’s 7-1 victory over CF Montr\u00e9al\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Messi finished with four goals in the lopsided win.<\/p>\n

The 39-year-old’s first goal came on a deflected free kick in the 40th minute that gave Miami a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Messi found the back of the net once again in the 52nd minute, navigating through multiple defenders before finishing with his right foot.<\/p>\n

The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner eventually completed his hat trick with a chip over Montr\u00e9al goalkeeper Thomas Gillier following a slick feed from Rodrigo De Paul.<\/p>\n

Messi capped off the night with a free kick in stoppage time that brought his total to four goals.<\/p>\n

Miami’s overall performance against Montr\u00e9al was impressive, holding 57 percent of\u00a0possession and finishing with 11 shots on goal.<\/p>\n

Messi now has 18 goals for Miami this year, leading<\/a> all MLS players during the 2026 season.<\/p>\n

Saturday also marked the eighth occasion in which Messi has scored four or more goals in a single match and his first since he played for Barcelona in 2020 (h\/t ESPN<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The victory also represented Miami’s first win since Aug. 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi was unstoppable during Inter Miami’s 7-1 victory over CF Montr\u00e9al\u00a0on Saturday. Messi finished with four goals…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-876741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876741","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=876741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}