FC Cincinnati were eliminated from the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs on Sunday night with a 4-0 loss to Inter Miami CF in the Eastern Conference Semifinals in front of a sellout crowd at TQL Stadium.<\/p>\n
The visitors established a 1-0 lead in the 19th minute when Lionel Messi headed in the opening goal from short distance. Miami added three second half goals between the 57th and 74th minutes to put the game out of reach.<\/p>\n
FC Cincinnati finished the season at 24-13-8 in all competitions.<\/p>\n
FC CINCINNATI GAME REPORT
FC Cincinnati vs Inter Miami CF
Date: November 23, 2025
Competition: Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs \u2013 Eastern Conference Semifinals
Venue: TQL Stadium | Cincinnati, Ohio
Attendance: 25,513 (sellout)
Kickoff: 5:12 p.m. ET
Weather: 51 degrees, clear<\/p>\n
FC CINCINNATI GAME REPORT
FC Cincinnati vs Inter Miami CF
Date: November 23, 2025
Competition: Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs \u2013 Eastern Conference Semifinals
Venue: TQL Stadium | Cincinnati, Ohio
Attendance: 25,513 (sellout)
Kickoff: 5:12 p.m. ET
Weather: 51 degrees, clear<\/p>\n
SCORING SUMMARY: 1-2-FT
CIN: 0-0-0
MIA: 1-3-4<\/p>\n
MIA \u2013 Lionel Messi (Silvetti) 19\u2019, Mateo Silvetti (Messi, Allende) 57\u2019, Tadeo Allende (Messi, Silvetti) 62\u2019, Tadeo Allende (Messi, Busquets) 74′<\/p>\n
LINEUPS
CIN: Roman Celentano, Lukas Engel (Luca Orellano 57\u2019), Teenage Hadebe (Alvas Powell 78\u2019), Miles Robinson (C), Nick Hagglund (Ayoub Jabbari 66\u2019), Ender Echenique (Yuya Kubo 66\u2019), Samuel Gidi, Pavel Bucha (Obinna Nwobodo 78\u2019), Evander, Brenner, K\u00e9vin Denkey<\/p>\n
Substitutes not used: Evan Louro, Gilberto Flores, Gerardo Valenzuela, Tah Brian Anunga<\/p>\n
MIA: Rocco R\u00edos Novo, Jordi Alba (Gonzalo Luj\u00e1n 82\u2019), Noah Allen (Tom\u00e1s Avil\u00e9s 77\u2019), Sergio Busquets, Maximiliano Falc\u00f3n, Marcelo Weigandt, Baltasar Rodr\u00edguez (Telasco Segovia 76\u2019), Rodrigo De Paul, Tadeo Allende (Luis Su\u00e1rez 76\u2019), Mateo Silvetti (Yannick Bright 82\u2019), Lionel Messi (C)<\/p>\n
Substitutes not used: \u00d3scar Ustari, Faf\u00e0 Picault, Santiago Morales, Allen Obando<\/p>\n
Head Coach: Javier Mascherano<\/p>\n
STATS SUMMARY: CIN\/MIA
Shots: 14 \/ 15
Shots on Goal: 5 \/ 7
Saves: 3 \/ 5
Corner Kicks: 4 \/ 2
Fouls: 8 \/ 11
Offside: 1 \/ 1
Possession: 52.1 \/ 47.9<\/p>\n
OFFICIALS\u202f
Referee: Drew Fischer
Ast. Referees: Jeremy Kieso, Jeffrey Greeson
Fourth Official: Pierre-Luc Lauziere
VAR: Carol Anne Chenard
AVAR: Robert Schaap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FC Cincinnati were eliminated from the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs on Sunday night with a 4-0 loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27885,4799,123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-58291","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-cinvsmia-11-23-2025","9":"tag-match-recap","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58291","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=58291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}