{"id":274928,"date":"2026-05-18T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T10:04:09","slug":"inter-miami-v-portland-timbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/274928\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami v Portland Timbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:BBC;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"BBC\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"195\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2023-07\/9188fa80-1cd1-11ee-adeb-4290b12541e6.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mon, May 18, 2026 at 6:57 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>Major League Soccer<\/p>\n<p>Inter Miami 2 &#8211; 0 Portland Timbers FT<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Inter Miami's Lionel Messi in the club's pink striped shirt\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_bbc_articles_618\/2959152110a0d61d216ddde42f879114.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi is second in the MLS scoring charts this season<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi scored one goal and created another in fine style as Inter Miami beat the Portland Timbers 2-0 to finally secure a first win at their new stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Messi scored his 12th goal of the season in Major League Soccer, sealing a slick team move with a powerful left-foot finish, before surging into the penalty area and setting up German Berterame to double the lead shortly before half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Former Barcelona forward Messi, 38, has now contributed five goals and six assists in his past four games.<\/p>\n<p>Miami moved into the 26,700-capacity Nu Stadium in April after six years playing in Fort Lauderdale, but drew three and lost one of their first four Major League Soccer matches at their new home.<\/p>\n<p>Guillermo Hoyos&#8217; side are second in the Eastern Conference with 28 points after 14 games, two points behind Nashville, as they look to retain the MLS Cup they won last season.<\/p>\n<p>Inter Miami&#8217;s final match before the World Cup break is against the Philadelphia Union on Sunday, 24 May (Monday, 25 May, 00:00 BST).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, May 18, 2026 at 6:57 AM UTC Major League Soccer Inter Miami 2 &#8211; 0 Portland Timbers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,117391,1660,8003,123,14240],"class_list":["post-274928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-goal-of-the-season","tag-lionel-messi","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-miami","tag-portland-timbers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274928","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=274928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}