{"id":265488,"date":"2026-05-10T07:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265488\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T07:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T07:33:07","slug":"messi-smashes-mls-record-in-inter-miamis-win-over-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/265488\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi smashes MLS record in Inter Miami\u2019s win over Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lionel Messi set a new MLS record in Inter Miami\u2019s 4-2 victory against Toronto FC<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Argentina international scored a goal and added two assists, smashing Sebastian Giovinco<\/a>\u2019s record by becoming the fastest player in MLS history to reach 100 goal contributions.<\/p>\n

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The 38-year-old achieved the feat in just 64 matches, which is 31 fewer than Giovinco.<\/p>\n

Messi was at the peak of his powers on Saturday, as he delivered a standout performance to lead his side to success at the BMO Field.<\/p>\n

Rodrigo De Paul<\/a> opened the scoring in the 44th minute, before Messi set up Luis Suarez<\/a> and Sergio Reguilon<\/a> to put the visitors 3-0 ahead.<\/p>\n

The experienced forward then got in on the action himself, finishing clinically past the goalkeeper after exchanging possession with De Paul.<\/p>\n

Emilio Aristiz\u00e1bal left the bench to bag a brilliant brace, but Miami went on to win comfortably.<\/p>\n

The Herons came into the fixture on the back of a disappointing 4-3 home loss to Orlando City<\/a> last weekend.<\/p>\n

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But they bounced back to pick an excellent victory that leaves them third in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n

Messi will turn 39 in June, but it seems age doesn\u2019t have an effect on the Argentine.<\/p>\n

He has already scored 10 goals and set up three in 13 appearances across all competitions this season.<\/p>\n

His overall goals tally for Miami has now reached 87 in 101 matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi set a new MLS record in Inter Miami\u2019s 4-2 victory against Toronto FC on Saturday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1658,14236,123,125,124,5692,4786,27823,114303,67060,8005],"class_list":["post-265488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-luis-suarez","tag-messi","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mls","tag-orlando-city","tag-rodrigo-de-paul","tag-sebastian-giovinco","tag-sergio-reguilon","tag-toronto-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265488","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=265488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}