Inter Miami and Cruz Azul have faced each other only once before, so the 2026 Campeones Cup will mark just the second chapter in the history between the two clubs.<\/p>\n
Their only previous meeting took place on Matchday 1 of the 2023 Leagues Cup, a game that ended in a 2-1 victory for Inter Miami. Robert Taylor opened the scoring for the American side, while Uriel Antuna tied the game for La M\u00e1quina.<\/p>\n
However, that match ended up being remembered for Lionel Messi. The Argentine came on in the final stretch and scored a free kick that decided the match, also netting his first goal in an Inter Miami jersey.<\/p>\n
More than three years later, the two teams meet again, but this time the circumstances are different: a championship is on the line.<\/p>\n
Cruz Azul will look to secure its first victory over the Garzas and even the head-to-head record, while Miami will aim to maintain its perfect record against the Mexican team and turn their second matchup into another win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inter Miami and Cruz Azul have faced each other only once before, so the 2026 Campeones Cup will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[144466,5429,46922,123,125,124,5692],"class_list":["post-402113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-cruz-azul","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-liga-mx","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402113","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=402113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}