{"id":385023,"date":"2026-08-30T03:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385023\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T03:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T03:40:11","slug":"messi-scores-four-goals-to-lead-inter-miami-to-7-1-romp-over-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385023\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi scores four goals to lead Inter Miami to 7-1 romp over Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Lionel Messi scored three times in the second half to finish off his first four-goal effort in MLS play while adding an assist, and Inter Miami scored six unaswered goals in a 7-1 romp over CF Montreal on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2093857879501451347?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Messi snapped a 1-1 tie<\/a> in the 40th minute when he found the net for the 15th time, scoring off a free kick.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning Golden Boot Award winner and league MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2093866052929134876?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">scored for a 3-1 lead<\/a> in the 52nd minute. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2093873584506642529?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">His 17th<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2093877406117335481?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">18th goals<\/a> of the season came in the 83rd and sixth minute of stoppage time with the final one also coming off a free kick. Messi began the day two behind Petar Musa of FC Dallas in the goals race.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2093852945183863145?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Casimiro scored<\/a> with a header off a corner kick by Telasco Segovia in the 20th minute to give Inter Miami a 1-0 lead. It was the first goal for the 34-year-old midfielder in his sixth league appearance and a career-best ninth assist for Segovia in his second MLS season.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal tied it in the 37th minute on a goal by Fabian Herbers \u2014 his first of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Su\u00e1rez scored his 11th goal with an assist from Messi \u2014 his 10th \u2014 for a 4-1 lead in the 80th minute and 18-year-old rookie Alexander Shaw made it 6-1 in the 89th with his first goal in three appearances and 37 minutes of play.<\/p>\n<p>Dayne St. Clair finished with three saves for Inter Miami (12-4-6), which finished August with a 1-2-2 record after a fifth straight victory over Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Gillier saved five shots for Montreal (5-11-6).<\/p>\n<p>It was Inter Miami\u2019s first victory since beating Montreal 1-0 on the road to close out July. Su\u00e1rez won that one on a penalty kick in the 81st minute.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Montreal: At Philadelphia Union on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Miami: Hosts Atlanta United on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See AP\u2019s full soccer coverage here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Lionel Messi scored three times in the second half to finish off his first four-goal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10073,123,125,124,2062,109,110],"class_list":["post-385023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-inter-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-soccer","tag-social","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385023","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=385023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}