{"id":392029,"date":"2026-09-06T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392029\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T09:38:10","slug":"lionel-messi-sets-up-two-goals-for-inter-miami-in-draw-with-atlanta-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392029\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi sets up two goals for Inter Miami in draw with Atlanta United"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lionel Messi set up both goals for Inter Miami as the Major League Soccer champions drew 2-2 with Atlanta United on Saturday in the Argentina star’s first match since announcing his retirement from international football.<\/p>\n

Thunderstorms and lightning delayed the start by 90 minutes, but sparks flew on the field after, with Messi<\/a>, Argentina’s all-time leading goalscorer and most-capped player, at the heart of the action.<\/p>\n

Miami<\/a> grabbed the lead in the 32nd minute when Brazil’s Casemiro<\/a> rose to head home Messi’s corner.<\/p>\n

Atlanta<\/a> equalized three minutes later when former Newcastle<\/a> forward Miguel Almiron<\/a> blasted home a low shot.<\/p>\n

Former Liverpool<\/a> and Barcelona<\/a> star Luis Suarez<\/a> put Miami into the lead with a measured finish on the cusp of half-time after a move down the left started by Messi.<\/p>\n

But Swiss striker Breel Embolo<\/a> struck home an 87th-minute penalty to secure a share of the spoils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi set up both goals for Inter Miami as the Major League Soccer champions drew 2-2 with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-392029","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\/392029","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=392029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}