Argentina’s Lionel Messi continued his brilliant form with Inter Miami, moving a step closer to breaking a historic record.<\/p>\n
Columbus Crew snatched a thrilling win over Leagues Cup holders Inter Miami, running out 2-1 winners thanks to a last-gasp strike from Jamal Thiar\u00e9 in the eighth minute of second-half stoppage time. The clash still had room for a remarkable display from the Argentine star.<\/p>\n
Messi produced an exceptional touch of class despite the defeat. He scored Inter Miami’s only goal in the 33rd minute, curling a direct free-kick with his left foot from a difficult angle. The ball settled in the far top corner, catching out a Columbus defence who had expected him to send in a cross.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Transfer expert Fabrizio Romano wrote on his “X” account: “Lionel Messi has scored 4 goals from free-kicks in the last 7 matches with Inter Miami”.<\/p>\n
He added: “Messi (76 goals) is now just two goals away from equalling the record for most free-kick scorer, held by Brazil’s Marcelinho Carioca with 78 free-kick goals in his career”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Argentina’s Lionel Messi continued his brilliant form with Inter Miami, moving a step closer to breaking a historic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[17145,163551,5429,10133,8003,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-412728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-columbus-crew","tag-columbus-crew-vs-inter-miami-cf","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-l-messi","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412728","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=412728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}