{"id":255920,"date":"2026-05-02T22:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255920\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:47:09","slug":"inter-miami-hosts-orlando-city-in-first-florida-derby-at-nu-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255920\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami hosts Orlando City in first Florida derby at Nu Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 2, 2026 at 6:31 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NGRYKFATPJD6JGUPFESCUCPWYA.jpg\"  width=\"4032\" height=\"2268\"\/>WPLG <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Inter Miami CF hosts Orlando City SC on Saturday in a highly anticipated Florida derby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Herons are still searching for their first win at Nu Stadium after drawing their first three matches there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the first derby of the season, Inter Miami earned a 4-2 road win in a dominant performance, with star Lionel Messi scoring a second-half brace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami sits in second place in the Eastern Conference with 19 points, while Orlando City is 14th with seven points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Entering the match, Messi has scored eight goals in five career matches against Orlando City, recording braces in four of them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami has yet to win at Nu Stadium but enters the match unbeaten in 11 straight games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With a win, Miami can tie Nashville SC for first place in the conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami\u2019s starting XI features Messi, Luis Su\u00e1rez and Germ\u00e1n Berterame up top; Telasco Segovia, Rodrigo De Paul and Yannick Bright in midfield; Ian Fray, Micael, Maximiliano Falc\u00f3n and Noah Allen in defense; and Dayne St. Clair in goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Florida derby kicks off at 7:15 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Pablo Hernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/96ffb9dd-5e0a-4be5-8ede-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Pablo Hernandez <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Pablo Hernandez is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born in Cuba and has lived in Miami, Florida since 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 2, 2026 at 6:31 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandWPLG MIAMI \u2014 Inter Miami CF hosts Orlando City SC on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-255920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255920","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=255920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}