{"id":70698,"date":"2025-12-04T06:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70698\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T06:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:45:16","slug":"lionel-messi-on-historic-run-as-inter-miami-host-mls-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70698\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi on historic run as Inter Miami host MLS Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Inter Miami CF<\/a> superstar has an Audi MLS Cup Playoffs record 13 goal contributions (6g\/7a) this year, powering the Herons as they prepare to host Vancouver Whitecaps FC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Phrased another way, the Argentine No. 10 has directly factored into 76% of Miami’s postseason goals as they’ve outscored opponents 17-4 on this historic stretch.<\/p>\n

Let’s spotlight Messi’s biggest moments as he looks to win a 47th trophy for club and country, extending his own world record.<\/p>\n

After earning the Eastern Conference No. 3 seed, Messi and Miami started their playoff journey in Round One against No. 6 seed Nashville SC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nashville pushed the series to three games, though they struggled to contain Messi \u2013 especially at Chase Stadium.<\/p>\n

With 5g\/3a from their captain, including his second playoff brace in a do-or-die Game 3<\/a>, the Herons avoided an early exit.<\/p>\n

Entering the Eastern Conference Final against No. 5 seed New York City FC<\/a>, the Herons knew they’d host MLS Cup with a win.<\/p>\n

Not that any extra motivation was needed.<\/p>\n

Messi turned orchestrator in the eventual 5-1 drubbing<\/a>, recording an assist on Silvetti’s momentum-swinging goal that gave him a world-record 405 helpers (previously held by Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s with 404).<\/p>\n

Of course, that assist also extended Messi’s playoff goal contributions to 13.<\/p>\n

Just ahead of the playoffs, Messi signed a contract extension<\/a> with Miami through 2028 \u2013 positioning him to help open Miami Freedom Park next April.<\/p>\n

Here’s a look at some other notable statistics as the GOAT looks to also become the first back-to-back Landon Donovan MLS MVP.<\/p>\n

Across the regular season and playoffs, Messi has the most goal contributions in MLS history (61). That surpasses the previous record, held by LAFC’s Carlos Vela (52; 2019 season).
\nDuring the regular season, Messi’s 48 goal contributions (29g\/19a) were one shy of Vela’s record of 49. Messi reached that in 28 games, whereas Vela (34g\/15a) got there in 31 games.
\nInter Miami have 98 combined regular-season and playoff goals in 2025, the most in a single season in MLS history.
\nMiami’s 17 playoff goals are one shy of the record 18 LA Galaxy<\/a> set in 2024.
\nMLS Cup will be Inter Miami’s 58th game across all competitions in 2025, a record for an MLS club in a single year.
\nMessi has featured in 48 games across all competitions this year, tallying 43 goals. Beyond MLS play, that includes Leagues Cup<\/a> (two goals), Concacaf Champions Cup<\/a> (five goals) and the FIFA Club World Cup<\/a> (one goal).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Inter Miami CF superstar has an Audi MLS Cup Playoffs record 13 goal contributions (6g\/7a) this year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[38585,5429,1660,123,125,124,39287,5426,4959],"class_list":["post-70698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-essentials","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-lionel-messi","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miavsvan-12-06-2025","tag-mls-cup-playoffs","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70698","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=70698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}