{"id":1578838,"date":"2024-03-14T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1578838"},"modified":"2024-03-14T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T15:30:04","slug":"lionel-messi-goal-assist-miami-advances-concacaf-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/lionel-messi-goal-assist-miami-advances-concacaf-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi Does What He Does Best While Helping Miami Advance To CONCACAF Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Lionel Messi's goal and assist helped Inter Miami beat Nashville 3-1 in the second leg of the CONCACAF Champions League Round of 16 on Wednesday. The Florida team is now through to the next round after drawing the first leg 2-2.<\/p>\r\n<p>In fine form, <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/lionel-messi\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Lionel Messi<\/a> lifted his Inter Miami club into the quarter-finals of the CONCACAF Champions League (the confederation of <a href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/tag\/soccer\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">soccer<\/a> teams from Central and North America), scoring a goal and providing an assist as the Florida club beat Nashville SC 3-1 in the second leg of the Round of 16.<\/p>\r\n<p>After a 2-2 draw in the first leg in Nashville, Miami quickly secured their place in the quarterfinals on home soil, already leading 2-0 after just 20 minutes thanks to a Luis Suarez goal from Messi's assist at the back of the opposition's defense in the 8th minute followed by a goal from &#8220;La Pulga&#8221; in the 23rd). Set up by Diego Gomez, the eight-time France Football Ballon d'Or winner scored with a swerving left-foot shot from the edge of the area. It was his 16th goal in an official match for Miami.<\/p>\r\n<p>In the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals, Inter Miami will face the winner of the Round of 16 tie between Cincinnati and Monterrey Rayados; 1-0 winners in the first leg in the USA, the Mexican club will host Cincinnati on Thursday night).<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"eg-single-article__content\">\r\n<div class=\"eg-single-article__block-content\">\r\n<p id=\"par-9_6\"><strong>This post is originally from L\u2019\u00c9quipe<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"eg-single-article__sidebar\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi's goal and assist helped Inter Miami beat Nashville 3-1 in the second leg of the CONCACAF Champions League Round of 16 on Wednesday. The Florida team is now through to the next round after drawing the first leg 2-2. In fine form, Lionel Messi lifted his Inter Miami club into the quarter-finals of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":1578849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5160],"tags":[19981,8633],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Messi Helps Miami Advance To CONCACAF Quarterfinals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lionel Messi posted a goal and an assist while helping Miami FC punched its ticket to the CONCAF quarterfinals.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/lionel-messi-goal-assist-miami-advances-concacaf-quarterfinals\/\" \/>\n<meta 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