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<\/p>\nCOMMERCE CITY, Colo. \u2014 Lionel Messi had two goals, Germ\u00e1n Berterame scored a goal for the second consecutive game, and Inter Miami beat the Colorado Rapids 3-2 on Saturday to extend their unbeaten streak to seven games. <\/p>\n
Messi, who opened the scoring when he converted a penalty kick in the 13th minute, scored the go-ahead goal in 79th minute. After a Colorado turnover near midfield, Messi cut back near the right corner of the penalty box and flicked a rising shot that split a pair of defenders and slipped inside the back post. <\/p>\n
Messi has seven goal this season, tied with Sam Surridge and Petar Musa for most in MLS. <\/p>\n
Miami (4-1-3) hasn’t lost since a season-opening 3-0 defeat to Los Angeles FC. <\/p>\n
Yannick Bright was shown a straight red car in the 87th minute and Miami played a man down the rest of the way. <\/p>\n
The Rapids (4-4-0) had won back-to-back games and three of their last four<\/p>\n
Bright drew a penalty conceded by Josh Atencio and Messi converted from the spot to open the scoring. <\/p>\n
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Inter Miami CF forward Germ\u00e1n Berterame celebrates after scoring a goal in the first half of an MLS soccer game against the Colorado Rapids Saturday, April 18, 2026, in Denver. Credit: AP\/Geneva Heffernan<\/p>\n
Mateo Silvetti, along the right end line, played an arcing cross to the back post where Berterame slammed home a header to make it 2-0 in the fifth minute of first-half stoppage time. <\/p>\n
Bertarame made his first career start and scored his first goal in MLS last time out in a 2-2 tie with the New York Red Bulls. <\/p>\n
Rafael Navarro scored in the 58th minute for the Rapids. The 26-year-old forward scored two goals in a 6-2 win over Houston last time out and has six goals this season. <\/p>\n
Darren Yapi subbed on for Hamzat Ojediran and, moments later, scored on the counter-attack to make it 2-2 in the 62nd minute. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COMMERCE CITY, Colo. \u2014 Lionel Messi had two goals, Germ\u00e1n Berterame scored a goal for the second consecutive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17153,123,125,124,2062,122],"class_list":["post-237404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-colorado-rapids","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-soccer","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237404","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=237404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}