Lionel Messi and Inter Miami qualified for the League Cup final.
Inter Miami advanced to the club’s first league game with a 4-1 win over Philadelphia Union in the semifinals on Tuesday night.
The win also secures Inter Miami a spot in next year’s CONCACAF Champions Cup, something the club has never done since its inception in 2018. Josef Martinez scored three minutes into the game, and Messi followed with a long three-pointer. In the 20th minute, the defenders, and Inter Miami escaped with a victory in Philadelphia. Entering Tuesday’s game, Philadelphia had lost just one of its last 41 home games.
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“Our goal was to qualify for international competition next season and we did that tonight,” head coach Gerardo “Tata” Martino said via the team’s website. “The most important thing was to qualify (for the CONCACAF Champions Cup) and now we have to prepare to win this tournament, which will give us a lot of motivation and confidence.”
Messi and Inter Miami will face Nashville SC in the League Cup final on Saturday.
Before Messi’s arrival in July, Inter Miami was the worst team in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference at 5-3-14 (WDL). Before the League Cup, the club had not won 11 games in a row.
Inter Miami has now won six games in a row, snapping a five-game winning streak in 22 games this MLS regular season. In these six matches, Messi scored nine goals. Inter Miami has scored 21 times in the League Cup, one less than the 22 goals in MLS this season.
Stream Messi in the League Cup Final
Inter Miami and Nashville SC will play for the League Cup title on Saturday at 9:00 p.m.
The game will be played at GEODIS Park in Nashville. Viewers can stream the game with the MLS Season Pass.
How to get Inter Miami vs Nashville SC tickets
Good luck to all the fans who want to get tickets to watch the League Cup final.
Nashville Inter has announced that tickets for the Miami-Nashville SC game will go on sale Wednesday at 2:00 PM ET. League Cup matches are not part of the Nashville SC season ticket package, but season ticket holders will have the first opportunity to purchase tickets. Tickets are on sale to the general public at Ticketmaster.com.
Since joining MLS, tickets to see Messi have been hard to come by.
Tickets for the game “Inter Miami-Philadelphia Union” sold out in eight minutes. Fans unable to get first-hand tickets will have to go to secondary markets, where prices have already skyrocketed, to see Messi in the League Cup.
Nashville fans want Messi
Nashville SC advanced to the final after beating Monterrey 2-0 in the semifinals on Tuesday.
Saturday will mark the club’s first game against Inter Miami since Messi joined MLS. As Nashville secured their place in the finals, their fans started chanting “We want Messi”. They have it now. The seven-time Ballon d’Or winner (awarded annually to the world’s best player) comes to town hoping to lead Inter Miami to the title.
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