{"id":33149,"date":"2025-07-24T07:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33149\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T07:07:06","slug":"mls-all-stars-3-1-liga-mx-all-stars-jul-23-2025-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33149\/","title":{"rendered":"MLS All-Stars 3-1 Liga MX All-Stars (Jul 23, 2025) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sam Surridge<\/a>, Tai Baribo<\/a> and Brian White<\/a> scored goals and Major League Soccer defeated Liga MX<\/a> of Mexico<\/a> 3-1 in the MLS All-Star Game on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Lionel Messi<\/a> and his Inter Miami teammate, Jordi Alba<\/a>, face possible league suspensions for their team’s next match against Cincinnati on Saturday for missing the All-Star Game.<\/p>\n

Liga MX’s James Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> also chose not to play in the game, which took place in front of more than 20,000 fans at Q2 Stadium in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n

MLS<\/a> has defeated Liga MX three times in four tries. Last year, Liga MX won 4-1 in Columbus, Ohio. The MLS All-Stars won in 2022 and beat Liga MX on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw a year prior.<\/p>\n

Messi has yet to appear in an MLS All-Star Game. He missed the game last year with an injury. Messi is tied with Nashville’s Surridge for the MLS lead in goals with 18.<\/p>\n

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Surridge scored another goal on Wednesday in the 28th minute with a header from the middle of the box into the lower right corner, after a\u00a0LAFC<\/a>‘s\u00a0Denis Bouanga<\/a> corner.<\/p>\n

The opportunity developed after Bouanga had a point-blank attempt stopped by Liga MX goalkeeper Luis Malagon (Club America). Bouanga hustled to retrieve the long rebound and sent it to Surridge.<\/p>\n

Before the goal, both teams had attempts rejected with diving stops by Luis Malag\u00f3n and Austin FC<\/a>‘s Brad Stuver<\/a> in the 13th and 18th minutes.<\/p>\n

MLS went ahead 2-0 in the 51st minute when Diego Rossi<\/a> (Columbus) passed ahead to Baribo (Philadelphia), whose right-footed shot from the center of the box made it to the lower left corner of the goal.<\/p>\n

Liga MX closed the gap to 2-1 just 13 minutes later when Gilberto Mora<\/a> (Club Tijuana) converted a pass from El\u00edas Montiel<\/a> (Pachuca) from the middle of the box.<\/p>\n

Liga MX’s bid to tie the match was snubbed when a shot by Diber Cambindo<\/a> (Necaxa) was stopped by Yohei Takaoka<\/a> (Vancouver) in the 75th minute.<\/p>\n

White (Vancouver) finished the scoring in the 80th minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Surridge, Tai Baribo and Brian White scored goals and Major League Soccer defeated Liga MX of Mexico…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-33149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}