Lionel Messi is not going to play for Inter Miami because the defending Leagues Cup champions start their repeat bid on Saturday at house towards Puebla, Miami coach Gerardo Martino mentioned Friday.
The 37-year-old Argentine striker suffered a proper ankle harm in his nation’s victory over Colombia within the Copa America closing this month.
Messi missed two MLS matches final week and Wednesday’s MLS All-Star Recreation towards Mexico’s Liga MX All-Stars.
Martino mentioned Messi stays in a strolling boot as he works with membership trainers however “the ankle is getting higher and higher,” in accordance with the Miami coach.
Final 12 months, Messi arrived at Inter Miami and led the membership on a title run within the inaugural version of the Leagues Cup, which options MLS and Mexican golf equipment in a World Cup-style format.
There are 15 three-team teams within the first spherical and two from every will advance to the knockout levels together with the reigning league champions, Membership America and the MLS Columbus Crew.
This 12 months’s opening matches have been performed Friday with host Orlando routing Montreal 4-1, DC United successful 6-5 on penalties after a 3-3 draw at Atlanta and 10-man host Austin edging Mexico’s Pumas 3-2.
Icelandic midfielder Dagur Thorhallsson, Uruguay’s Facundo Torres and Argentine striker Ramiro Enrique gave Orlando a 3-0 half-time lead and Argentina’s Martin Ojeda added one other aim within the 57th minute whereas Montreal’s Josef Martinez, a Venezuelan midfielder, averted a shutout loss within the 69th.
Austin goalkeeper Stefan Cleveland denied a penalty shot by Pumas striker Guillermo Martinez within the fourth minute of second-half stoppage time because the Texas membership held on after Osman Bukari’s purple card within the thirty fourth minute with Austin up 1-0 on Alexander Ring’s eighth-minute aim.
Gyasi Zardes and Sebastian Driussi added targets for Austin whereas Martinez and Ali Avila scored for Pumas to arrange the thrilling end.
DC United’s scheduled house match towards Santos Laguna subsequent Wednesday at Audi Subject was moved to the house stadium of the Philadelphia Union — Subaru Park in Chester, Pennsylvania — on account of issues over discipline situations in Washington.
Leagues Cup organizers fined DC United an undisclosed sum over situations, with the membership saying it’s putting in a brand new grass discipline on the stadium on July 31, a transfer that had been beforehand deliberate for August 1.
AFP