1 year ago
25
ESPN
Jul 12, 2025, 09:36 PM ET
Lionel Messi continued to marque past connected Saturday, extending his MLS-record streak of multigoal games arsenic helium scored doubly successful Inter Miami's 2-1 triumph implicit Nashville SC.
Messi had already claimed the grounds past week erstwhile becoming the archetypal subordinate successful MLS past to people aggregate goals successful 4 consecutive league games.
And helium took that streak to 5 connected Saturday, with a extremity successful each fractional to assistance Miami to a 5th consecutive MLS victory.
Messi present besides holds the associated pb successful the MLS scoring charts, with 16 goals successful conscionable 15 games this play to lucifer Nashville's Sam Surridge.
The Argentina large opened the scoring successful Fort Lauderdale, Florida, with a perfectly placed escaped footwear successful the 17th minute. Messi bushed some the Nashville partition and goalkeeper Joe Willis with a debased left-footed changeable that recovered the bottommost country of the net.
It was Messi's 69th extremity from a nonstop escaped footwear and his sixth with Miami. It besides gave him a extremity successful a sixth consecutive MLS game, 1 down his champion specified streak successful MLS acceptable past year.
His record-extending 2nd came successful the 62nd minute. Messi intercepted an errant walk from Willis past nonchalantly took the shot astir the Nashville keeper earlier coolly depositing it into the net.
It's the archetypal clip Messi has had 5 consecutive multigoal league games since a tally of six with Barcelona successful LaLiga successful 2012.
In betwixt Messi's strikes, Hany Mukhtar scored disconnected a delightful transverse from Andy Nájar.
It was Miami, though, that got the triumph arsenic it closed the spread connected Eastern Conference leaders Philadelphia Union and FC Cincinnati to 5 points, portion inactive having 3 games successful manus owed to its information successful the FIFA Club World Cup.
ESPN Research contributed to this report.
