In the early hours of this morning, Inter Miami ushered in their third warm-up match of 2024 and their first warm-up match after coming to Saudi Arabia, against Riyadh Crescent, the two teams staged a goal battle, and finally Miami International lost 3-4 to their opponents, and did not taste a win in three warm-up games in the New Year.
Although the team still failed to win, Inter Miami reaped two major benefits, one was that the new signing Suarez scored in the game, opening the goal account of his Miami career. The second is that Messi's form has recovered, contributing a goal and an assist in the game.
Compared with Suarez's goal, Messi's return to form is undoubtedly more crucial, after all, he is the real tactical core and soul of this team, and his form directly affects the team's combat strength.
Messi's form improved significantly from the previous two games, and in the unfavorable situation of 1-3 down the team, he stepped up and scored a penalty created by his team-mates from 12 yards, closing the gap for the team and scoring his first goal of the new year.
Just two minutes later, Messi provided the assist for Ruiz and helped him score the world's wave goal to equalize the score. And being able to contribute a pass and a shot in just 2 minutes to help the team turn around the decline and equalize, Messi's style of the king of the ball is undoubtedly revealed.
The stats can reflect Messi's role in the game well, with 1 shot on goal and 1 on target, 3 successful 3 dribble attempts, 54 touches, 31 successful 39 passes, a pass completion rate of 79%, including 1 key pass, and a post-match rating of 81 point is also the highest on the team.
In addition to this goal and assist, he played more than 1v many times in the game, and also contributed God-like passes, but unfortunately his teammates were unable to grasp the opportunity. And it is worth mentioning that Messi was replaced early in the 88th minute of the game, and the opponent's fourth goal occurred after he went off the field.
At 2 a.m. on February 2, they will face the second game of their trip to Saudi Arabia, and the opponent is the victory of Riyadh led by Cristiano Ronaldo. Considering that Messi's form has recovered and Riyadh Victory is weaker than Riyadh Crescent, Miami will be the dominant side regardless of whether Ronaldo can return from injury or not.
So it's no surprise that this much-anticipated Melo showdown will most likely end with Messi leading Miami to his first win of the new year, and Messi will most likely play better than today. Sports Warm Winter Creation Season