Eliminated in semifinals of the Concacaf Champions Leaguetraolmed 0-3 at home by Orlando City and capable of winning only one of his last 7 games, Leo Messi and Luis Suárez They live the hardest moment of their path in the Inter Miamiin which the future of the technician Javier Mascherano It is in the air.
A season started with maximum enthusiasm, with Inter Miami determined to fight for the MLS, the CUP Leagues and the Concacaf Champions League already surprise in the New FIFA Club World Cup, has had a radical turn in recent weeks, started with the traumatic elimination of the 'Concachampions'.
Messi, after a defeat against Orlando. / LEONARDO FERNANDEZ / Getty Images via AFP
Until that time, despite the defensive alarms of the Mascherano team, Inter Miami felt confident and had given its fans a spectacular night in the quarterfinals of the 'Concachampions', when tracing in Miami the 0-1 of the Ida against Los Angeles FC and when planted in the semifinals.
Messi decided that game with a double and had eight goals in the nine games played until that moment. Suarez had contributed four goals and five assists to the positive season of the men of Mascherano.
The crossing with Vancouver has been a psychological blow to Inter Miami. He lost 2-0 the first leg and fell 1-3 at home in the return, which left him out of one of the great objectives of his season.
The 4-1 endorsed to the New York Red Bulls in the next MLS match, with Messi's goal, could not change the dynamics of the Mascherano team, which since May 4 has not won again.
They lost against Minnesota, tied with San José Earthquakes and were beaten by Orlando City. Apart from the defeats, the Inter Miami defensive numbers stand out, which has conceded ten goals in those three commitments.
Bad defense
In the last seven games, the pink team has received 20 goals.
The discomfort of Inter Miami was evident after the hard defeat in Florida's derby against Orlando and Messi, which speaks very rarely at the end of his team's encounters, protested by arbitration.
“I think we made a great first part today. We were attacking, creating situations, they could not leave, they threw balls. And of a rare play, where a player of them gives a pass to the goalkeeper and he referred to himself he told me that he did not know the rule, that he had not seemed that, that he did not understand … and, well, he came from a ball and came the goal,” Sunday.
Luis Suarez, during the last game between Inter Miami and Orlando City / LEONARDO FERNANDEZ / Getty Images via AFP
“But the truth is that there are times that there are specific errors such as the last game (against the San Jose Earthaquakes), did you see? They are not excuses, but something always happens with the referees in some timely play. I think the MLS would have to look a little more the subject of the referees,” he added.
Mascherano, whose position on the bench begins to lose solidity, acknowledged that his club is having a bad time.
Leo Messi, desperate after a new defeat of Inter Miami. / Rebecca Blackwell / AP
“The team has lost a lot in confidence, we have dropped into an individual and collective level. And it is clear that in some way or another we have tried with different systems, with different names now it is costing us,” the Argentine said at a press conference.
Inter Miami has to react quickly, at a key moment of the MLS season that will take, in a few weeks, the debut in the Club World Cup.
Messi's team is framed in a demanding group with Porto, Palmeiras and Ahly.
