{"id":201715,"date":"2026-05-25T04:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201715\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T04:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:56:12","slug":"inter-miami-overcome-philadelphia-union-in-wild-10-goal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/201715\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Miami overcome Philadelphia Union in WILD 10-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The combined 10 goals tied for the second-most in an MLS match, only surpassed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/la-galaxy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LA Galaxy<\/a>&#8216;s 7-4 win over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/colorado-rapids\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rapids<\/a> in May 1998 (11 total).<\/p>\n<p>The back-and-forth thriller started with eight first-half goals, then calmed down with two second-half strikes from the defending MLS Cup presented by Audi champions to seal their second win at their new ground.<\/p>\n<p>\n      Don&#8217;t blink<\/p>\n<p>Miami fans could have been forgiven for expecting a simpler match against Philadelphia. The 2025 MLS Supporters&#8217; Shield champions have struggled this year and are last in the overall table with just seven points (1W-10L-4D).<\/p>\n<p>But Bradley Carnell&#8217;s side showed no fear when traveling to South Florida, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/milan-iloski\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milan Iloski<\/a> netted a hat trick and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/bruno-damiani\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruno Damiani<\/a> punched home a near-range finish \u2013 all before halftime.<\/p>\n<p>The Herons had to overcome an early 2-0 hole, and ultimately rattled off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/luis-suarez\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Su\u00e1rez<\/a> hat trick, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/german-berterame\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Germ\u00e1n Berterame<\/a> brace and a late insurance strike by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/rodrigo-de-paul\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rodrigo De Paul<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/fifa-world-cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FIFA World Cup<\/a> pause, Miami are now two points behind Supporters&#8217; Shield leaders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/nashville-sc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville SC<\/a> and have scored a league-best 39 goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll return to league action on July 22 vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/clubs\/chicago-fire-fc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Fire FC<\/a> (7:30 pm ET | <a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/inter-miami-cf-vs-chicago-fire-fc\/umc.cse.1d6hm9g5x0pe68nji00aa5hei?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000%2Ctvs.sbd.4000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple TV<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\n      Messi fatigue<\/p>\n<p>Amid all the highlights, Inter Miami were dealt a scare when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/lionel-messi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Messi<\/a> exited in the 73rd minute with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/lionel-messi-exits-last-game-before-world-cup-with-injury-inter-miami-argentina\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">muscular fatigue and load management<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Messi&#8217;s early substitution comes before he&#8217;s expected to captain Argentina at this summer&#8217;s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Just over three weeks remain until Argentina&#8217;s World Cup opener on June 16 vs. Algeria. In Group J, the three-time World Cup champions will also face Austria (June 22) and Jordan (June 27).<\/p>\n<p>Messi led La Albiceleste to the 2022 World Cup title and is approaching 200 caps for his country. He has appeared in a record 26 World Cup matches while producing 13g\/8a.<\/p>\n<p>This MLS season, the back-to-back Landon Donovan MLS MVP has a league-best 20 goal contributions (12g\/8a) through 14 matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The combined 10 goals tied for the second-most in an MLS match, only surpassed by the LA Galaxy&#8216;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[89110,11896,88260,69,71,70,10227,65417,10226],"class_list":["post-201715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-match-reaction","tag-miavsphi-05-24-2026","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-union","tag-priority-match","tag-sendtonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}