{"id":385045,"date":"2026-08-30T04:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385045\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T04:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T04:28:19","slug":"lionel-messi-scores-4-goals-leads-inter-miami-to-historic-7-1-win-over-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385045\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi Scores 4 Goals, Leads Inter Miami To Historic 7-1 Win Over Montr\u00e9al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Lionel Messi scored four goals and assisted one to lead Inter Miami to a historic 7-1 win over CF Montr\u00e9al on Saturday at Nu Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Messi scored his first goal, and Inter Miami&#8217;s second of the night, in the 40th minute from a direct free kick that caught Montr\u00e9al goalkeeper Thomas Gillier off guard at the near post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Messi scored again 12 minutes later after dribbling past three Montr\u00e9al defenders. His 16th goal of the season tied him with FC Dallas&#8217;s Petar Musa for the 2026 MLS season-high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Messi completed his hat-trick with a chipped shot in the 83rd minute, just three minutes after he assisted Luis Su\u00e1rez for Inter Miami&#8217;s fourth goal of the evening. Messi has scored 62 hat-tricks in his club career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Messi scored his fourth and final goal from another direct free kick. He is the ninth player in MLS history to score at least two direct free kicks in a single match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"false\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The 7-1 win was Inter Miami&#8217;s largest margin of victory in club history, and the first time the club has scored seven goals in a single match. The MLS record for most goals by a team in a single match is eight (LA Galaxy, 1998).<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Messi &amp; Inter Miami CF vs CF Montr\u00e9al Highlights \u26bd\ufe0f FOX Soccer  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/watch\/fmc-i3eph331v8bgarbs\" class=\"pointer video\" data-v-78d4b501=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/nd768m6gznmmf919.jpg\" alt=\"Lionel Messi &amp; Inter Miami CF vs CF Montr\u00e9al Highlights \u26bd\ufe0f FOX Soccer\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" class=\"thumbnail\" data-v-78d4b501=\"\"\/><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Check out the best highlights between Inter Miami and the CF Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi scored four goals and assisted one to lead Inter Miami to a historic 7-1 win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4101,8095,5429,1660,123,125,124,5692],"class_list":["post-385045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-argentina","tag-fifa-mens-world-cup","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-lionel-messi","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385045","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=385045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}