{"id":74317,"date":"2025-12-07T10:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74317\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T10:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T10:14:27","slug":"champions-inter-miami-lionel-messi-win-mls-cup-over-vancouver-whitecaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74317\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAMPIONS! Inter Miami & Lionel Messi win MLS Cup over Vancouver Whitecaps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lionel Messi<\/a> assisted second-half goals from Rodrigo De Paul<\/a> and Tadeo Allende<\/a>, delivering Miami their first Philip F. Anschutz Trophy in the club’s sixth season.<\/p>\n

Messi first created a 71st-minute game-winner from Rodrigo De Paul<\/a>, capitalizing on a midfield turnover with a fast-break chance from the Argentine internationals and 2022 FIFA World Cup<\/a> champions.<\/p>\n

The iconic No. 10 then slipped Allende through in the 96th minute, and his compatriot sealed the result with a low finish that marked his record ninth Audi MLS Cup Playoffs goal.<\/p>\n

De Paul and Allende\u2019s heroics followed a 60th-minute equalizer from Vancouver, with Canadian international Ali Ahmed<\/a> putting just enough power on his shot to beat goalkeeper Rocco R\u00edos Novo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Before the second-half fireworks, Miami opened the scoring in the eighth minute through an \u00c9dier Ocampo<\/a> own goal. The Vancouver defender deflected in Allende\u2019s cross after Messi and De Paul combined on the near touchline.<\/p>\n

\n Goals<\/p>\n

8′ – MIA – \u00c9dier Ocampo (OG) | WATCH<\/a>
\n60′ – VAN – Ali Ahmed | WATCH<\/a>
\n71′ – MIA – Rodrigo De Paul | WATCH<\/a>
\n90+6′ – MIA – Tadeo Allende | WATCH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi assisted second-half goals from Rodrigo De Paul and Tadeo Allende, delivering Miami their first Philip F.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5429,16163,123,125,124,39287,5426,4959,4798],"class_list":{"0":"post-74317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-inter-miami-cf","9":"tag-match-reaction","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-miavsvan-12-06-2025","14":"tag-mls-cup-playoffs","15":"tag-sendtonews","16":"tag-vancouver-whitecaps-fc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74317","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=74317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}