{"id":579315,"date":"2026-04-12T06:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579315\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T06:36:12","slug":"miami-2-2-red-bull-ny-apr-11-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/579315\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami 2-2 Red Bull NY (Apr 11, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI —\u00a0Lionel Messi<\/a> scored two goals in a Champions League match for Barcelona<\/a> on April 8, 2009, which was two days after Adri Mehmeti<\/a> was born.<\/p>\n

Only 17 years later, they both had a say in the outcome for their teams on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Messi helped set up Germ\u00e1n Berterame<\/a> for a second-half goal that gave Inter Miami its first lead in its new stadium, and Mehmeti’s first MLS<\/a> goal in the 77th minute pulled the New York Red Bulls into a 2-2 tie with Messi and the defending MLS Cup champions on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Mateo Silvetti<\/a> also scored for Inter Miami (3-1-3), which is now unbeaten in its last six MLS matches. Jorge Ruvalcaba<\/a> scored for the Red Bulls (3-2-2), who have one win in their last five matches but rallied to get a point out of this one after wasting an early 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Berterame’s goal looked like it would give Inter Miami some control.<\/p>\n

There were no fewer than four defenders within a couple of yards of Messi – two of them squarely between him and the net – as he brought the ball toward the box in the 55th minute, and with all those eyeballs on him nobody seemed to be marking Berterame just to his left.<\/p>\n

No shot, no problem. In fact, it was a bit of a bad break for the Red Bulls.<\/p>\n

Messi had the ball knocked away but it simply rolled toward Berterame, who one-timed it with his right foot for a 2-1 lead – with the greatest player ever being the first to wrap him in a celebratory headlock after the goal. It gave Inter Miami its first lead in about 150 minutes of play over two matches in its new stadium, which opened last weekend with a draw against Austin FC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But a pair of kids made sure the lead didn’t last.<\/p>\n

Julian Hall<\/a>, 18, set up Mehmeti for the equalizer, finding space near the goal line and putting the ball into the perfect spot.<\/p>\n

Messi had a chance in the 49th minute from about 12 yards out. He got the ball near the top of the box, stopped on a dime as Red Bulls defender Matthew Dos Santos<\/a> went sliding past, flicked the ball to his left foot and tried a shot to the near post. It went just wide as he fell to the turf.<\/p>\n

Both teams had goals waved off by offside calls – New York’s following a review – in the second half. Messi also had a 25-yard free kick stopped by Red Bulls goalie Ethan Horvath<\/a> in the 94th minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI —\u00a0Lionel Messi scored two goals in a Champions League match for Barcelona on April 8, 2009, which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-579315","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\/579315","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=579315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}