{"id":385099,"date":"2026-08-30T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385099\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:06:10","slug":"lionel-messi-scores-4-goals-inter-miami-romps-montreal-7-1-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385099\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi scores 4 goals, Inter Miami romps Montreal 7-1 \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lionel Messi<\/a> scored three times in the second half to finish off his first four-goal effort in MLS<\/a> play while adding an assist, and Inter Miami<\/a> scored six unaswered goals in a 7-1 romp over CF Montreal on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Messi snapped a 1-1 tie in the 40th minute when he found the net for the 15th time, scoring off a free kick.<\/p>\n

The reigning Golden Boot Award winner and league MVP scored for a 3-1 lead in the 52nd minute. His 17th and 18th goals 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

Carlos Casimiro scored 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

Montreal tied it in the 37th minute on a goal by Fabian Herbers \u2014 his first of the campaign.<\/p>\n

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

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

Thomas Gillier saved five shots for Montreal (5-11-6).<\/p>\n

It was Inter Miami’s 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi scored three times in the second half to finish off his first four-goal effort in MLS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10073,1660,123,125,124,5692,2062],"class_list":["post-385099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-inter-miami","tag-lionel-messi","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mls","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385099","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=385099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}