{"id":470631,"date":"2026-09-21T05:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470631\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T05:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T05:56:13","slug":"messi-miami-frustrated-in-2-2-draw-with-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470631\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi, Miami frustrated in 2-2 draw with San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/urn:newsml:afp.com:20260921:1ba48cf5-64c9-492e-9072-8556748dc1a8\" rel=\"http:\/\/cv.iptc.org\/newscodes\/ninature\/picture nofollow noopener\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><br \/>\n                 Lionel Messi and Inter Miami&#8217;s hopes of overtaking Nashville at the top of Major League Soccer&#8217;s Eastern Conference suffered a blow on Sunday after the champions were held to a 2-2 draw by San Diego in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Two goals from Danish forward Anders Dreyer secured a share of the points for San Diego at Miami&#8217;s Nu Stadium \u2013- a result which left Miami 11 points adrift of Nashville with eight regular season games remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Denmark international Dreyer fired San Diego into a shock lead after 12 minutes, latching on to a superb through ball from compatriot Jeppe Tverskov before lifting a delicate chip over Miami goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair.<\/p>\n<p>But Miami, who dominated territory and possession for long periods thereafter, were back on level terms in the 24th minute when Messi curled in his 101st goal for Miami.<\/p>\n<p>Messi&#8217;s wicked curling free-kick from the edge of the area somehow threaded its way through a crowded six-yard box and clipped the inside of the post before ending in the net.<\/p>\n<p>From there Miami laid siege to the San Diego goal and it seemed only a matter of time before they took the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Messi, Luis Suarez, and Rodrigo De Paul all had good chances but somehow San Diego managed to hold on.<\/p>\n<p>The deadlock was broken in the 74th minute when De Paul released Suarez with a clever pass on the edge of the area and the 39-year-old Uruguayan veteran lashed home the finish for 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>That looked like it would be enough as the game entered the final 10 minutes, but San Diego stunned the home crowd with a goal that echoed their first.<\/p>\n<p>Tverskov once again found Dreyer with a pinpoint pass over the top and the Dane finished coolly to make it 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>A frenetic finish saw San Diego almost snatch victory deep into stoppage time, but St. Clair blocked Kieran Sargeant&#8217;s late effort on the counter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi and Inter Miami&#8217;s hopes of overtaking Nashville at the top of Major League Soccer&#8217;s Eastern Conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-470631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}