MIAMI, Fla. (Sept. 12, 2026)\u202f\u2013\u00a0MLS-leading Nashville Soccer Club maintained its nine-point lead over Inter Miami CF in the Eastern Conference standings with a come-from-behind 2-2 draw vs. the Herons Saturday night at Nu Stadium.<\/p>\n
Sam Surridge opened the\u00a0scoring in the fourth\u00a0minute\u00a0with\u00a0assists from defenders Andy Najar and Jeisson Palacios. Inter Miami tied the match in the 19th\u00a0minute with an own goal\u00a0and Lionel Messi gave\u00a0the hosts the lead in the 62nd\u00a0minute\u00a0before\u00a0Surridge scored the game-tying goal in the 91stminute to give the Boys in Gold a point on the road. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Coming in clutch:\u00a0Sam Surridge, who finished with his fifth multi-goal MLS performance of 2026, leads Nashville SC with 15 league goals this season and 17 across all competitions (MLS, Concacaf Champions Cup, Leagues Cup). The Boys in Gold are 7W-0L-2D in MLS play this season when the striker scores.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unbeaten in four:\u00a0Nashville SC is unbeaten in four matches vs. Inter Miami this year across all competitions (MLS, Concacaf Champions Cup), including a 4-1 win at GEODIS Park on August 15 and a 1-1 draw at Chase Field that knocked Miami out of the Concacaf Champions Cup on March 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Headed home:\u00a0After three consecutive games on the road, the Boys in Gold will play three of their next four matches at GEODIS Park and are the only unbeaten team at home in MLS at 11W-0L-1D.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Next up:\u00a0Nashville SC\u00a0will return to GEODIS Park to host Chicago Fire FC at 8:30 p.m. CT on Saturday, Sept. 19 for Hispanic Heritage Night presented by Heineken. \u00a0<\/p>\n
is unbeaten in four matches vs. Inter Miami this season at 1W-0L-3D
\nis in first place in MLS with 54 points
\nis unbeaten in 17 of its last 19 MLS matches at 12W-2L-5D
\nis \u00a0unbeaten in 29 of 36 matches this season across all competitions (MLS, Concacaf Champions Cup, Leagues Cup
\nis 20W-7L-9D across all competitions this season
\nis 5W-3L-5D on the road this season in MLS play<\/p>\n
Warren Madrigal did not dress due to a lower body injury\u00a0<\/p>\n
Andy Najar recorded his seventh MLS assist of the season<\/p>\n
Jeisson Palacios recorded his fifth MLS assist of the season<\/p>\n
Brian Schwake made\u00a0three save<\/p>\n
scored his team-leading 14th\u00a0and 15th MLS goals\u00a0for his fifth multi-goal league match of the season
\nhas three goals in his last two matches vs. Inter Miami CF
\nearned Man of the Match honors<\/p>\n
Box score:\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nashville SC (16W-3L-6D) at\u00a0Inter Miami CF (12W-4L-9D)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sept. 12, 2026 \u2013 Nu Stadium \u00a0<\/p>\n
Final score:\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
NSH: Sam Surridge (A: Andy Najar, Jeisson Palacios) 4\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
MIA: Reed Baker-Whiting (Own Goal) 19′\u00a0<\/p>\n
MIA: Lionel Messi (A: Rodrigo De Paul) 62\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
NSH: Sam Surridge 90\u2019+1\u00a0<\/p>\n
NSH: Alex Muyl (Caution) 9\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
MIA: Fricio Caicedo (Caution) 41\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
NSH: Maxwell Woledzi (Caution) 43\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
MIA: German Berterame (Caution) 86\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
MIA: Matias Galarza (Caution) 90\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
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NSH starters:\u00a0Brian Schwake; Reed Baker-Whiting (Dan Lovitz 72\u2019), Maxwell Woledzi, Jeisson Palacios, Andy Najar; Patrick Yazbek (Eddi Tagseth 72\u2019), Matthew Corcoran (Bryan Acosta 81\u2019), Alex Muyl (Elias Saad 56\u2019); Hany Mukhtar (C), Cristian Espinoza (Shak Mohammed 81\u2019); Sam Surridge \u00a0<\/p>\n
Substitutes:\u00a0Joe Willis, Jack Maher, Josh Bauer, Ahmed Qasem \u00a0<\/p>\n
MIA starters:\u00a0Dayne St. Clair; Fricio Caicedo, Casemiro, Maximiliano Falcon, Ian Fray (Facundo Mura 66\u2019); Rodrigo De Paul, Telasco Segovia (Matias Galarza 66\u2019), Yannick Bright; German Berterame, Lionel Messi (C), Luis Suarez\u00a0<\/p>\n
Substitutes:\u00a0Rocco Rios Novo, Gonzalo Lujan, Sergio Reguilon, Micael dos Santos, David Ayala, Daniel Pinter, Alex Shaw\u00a0<\/p>\n
Match officials:\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Guido Gonzales, Jr. \u00a0<\/p>\n
VAR:\u00a0Carol Anne Chenard\u00a0<\/p>\n
Weather:\u00a082 degrees and partly cloudy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI, Fla. (Sept. 12, 2026)\u202f\u2013\u00a0MLS-leading Nashville Soccer Club maintained its nine-point lead over Inter Miami CF in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21995,123,125,124,158094],"class_list":["post-398435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-match-recaps","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miavsnsh-09-12-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398435","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=398435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}