{"id":256343,"date":"2026-05-03T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256343\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:38:10","slug":"messis-goal-not-enough-as-miami-blow-3-0-lead-to-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256343\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi’s goal not enough as Miami blow 3-0 lead to Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami squandered a 3-0 lead to fall 4-3 to Orlando City on Saturday and remain in search of a first win at their new Nu Stadium.<\/p>\n

Miami<\/a> appeared to be on their way in Argentine superstar Messi<\/a>‘s 100th match with the South Florida side.<\/p>\n

But Orlando<\/a> scored the final four goals to hand the Herons their second defeat of the Major League Soccer season.<\/p>\n

Messi’s brilliant strike in the 33rd minute gave the hosts a 3-0<\/a> lead, the former Barcelona<\/a> star curling a left-footed shot from just outside the penalty area past Orlando goalkeeper Maxime Crepeau<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ian Fray<\/a> had opened the scoring for Miami in the fourth minute, and Venezuelan Telasco Segovia<\/a> doubled the score in the 25th.<\/p>\n

But the team coached by Argentine Guillermo Hoyos couldn’t maintain the pace.<\/p>\n

Argentine Martin Ojeda<\/a> scored Orlando’s first three goals, pulling one back in the 39th minute with a brilliant long-range strike.<\/p>\n

Ojeda repeated the formula with another shot from the edge of the box in the 68th minute.<\/p>\n

He delivered the equalizer in the 79th minute from the penalty spot, taking his tally to seven goals in 11 matches this season.<\/p>\n

Tyrese Spicer<\/a> completed the spectacular comeback in second-half injury time, latching onto a long ball in behind the center backs and finishing between the legs of goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami squandered a 3-0 lead to fall 4-3 to Orlando City on Saturday and remain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-256343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256343","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=256343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}