Saturday’s double moved Messi to 25 goals for the campaign, giving him a six-goal cushion in the MLS Golden Boot race. He is also tied with LAFC’s Son Heung-min for the most assists in the division (15), making him the first player in league history to hit that mark in three consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n
The brace elevated Messi’s extraordinary career tally to 936 goals, and his manager is fully confident the forward will break the four-figure barrier. “Yes, I believe he’ll reach 1,000 goals,” Gonzalez noted. “I have faith in that. I know he will, because he loves a challenge, he sets challenges for himself and since he’s already achieved everything else, this will be no exception.”<\/p>\n
The victory was Inter Miami’s third in a row, further cementing their second-place spot in the Eastern Conference behind Nashville. In contrast, Tata Martino’s Atlanta United remain stranded in 14th place, severely denting their playoff aspirations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday’s double moved Messi to 25 goals for the campaign, giving him a six-goal cushion in the MLS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15268,169226,5429,10133,8003,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-431085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-atlanta-united","tag-atlanta-united-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\/431085","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=431085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}