{"id":352459,"date":"2026-07-25T22:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352459\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:20:09","slug":"inter-miami-lineup-vs-cf-montreal-is-lionel-messi-playing-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352459\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami Lineup vs. CF Montr\u00e9al- Is Lionel Messi Playing Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier in the week, Inter Miami defeated the Chicago Fire 3-2 at Nu Stadium as the MLS resumed after a two-month break. Inter Miami is second in the Eastern Conference league table with 34 points.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, Inter Miami will play away from home against CF Montr\u00e9al at Stade Saputo. Inter Miami will look to replicate their performance last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>What made the win over Chicago Fire impressive is that Inter Miami won the match without their star player, <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/lionel-messi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Messi<\/a>, who was not available to play the game.<\/p>\n<p>Messi&#8217;s last appearance for Inter Miami was against the Philadelphia Union on May 24, 2026, which was the team&#8217;s last game before the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/soccer\/2026-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a>. Messi provided two assists in that game against the Philadelphia Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier in the week, Inter Miami defeated the Chicago Fire 3-2 at Nu Stadium as the MLS resumed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-352459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352459","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=352459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}