{"id":179040,"date":"2026-03-05T09:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179040\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T09:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T09:43:13","slug":"inter-miamis-lionel-messi-wins-goal-of-the-matchday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/179040\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami’s Lionel Messi wins Goal of the Matchday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inter Miami CF<\/a> superstar Lionel Messi<\/a> has earned AT&T Goal of the Matchday honors for Matchday 2, taking 87.5% of the fan vote.<\/p>\n

The legendary Argentine guided a left-footed blast through a host of defenders and into the far corner to even the match in a 4-2 Florida Derby win<\/a> at rivals Orlando City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2nd place, Mart\u00edn Ojeda (5%): Orlando’s midfielder maestro delivered an outside-of-the-boot finish to give the Lions a 2-0 lead in their eventual 4-2 loss against Miami.<\/p>\n

3rd place, Stephen Eust\u00e1quio (4.9%): The Canadian international netted his first LAFC<\/a> goal in a 2-0 win<\/a> at Houston Dynamo FC<\/a>, a long-range strike that left goalkeeper Jonathan Bond<\/a> with no chance.<\/p>\n

4th place, Mark Delgado (2.6%): Delgado<\/a> also found the back of the net from distance in the Black & Gold’s win in Houston, tucking a curling effort inside the far post.<\/p>\n

See all the nominees here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inter Miami CF superstar Lionel Messi has earned AT&T Goal of the Matchday honors for Matchday 2, taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[84664,5429,1660,123,125,124,79600,4959],"class_list":["post-179040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-goal-of-the-matchday","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-lionel-messi","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-orlvsmia-03-01-2026","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}