of Inter Miami Lionel Messi Epic beat FC Cincinnati at home this Wednesday After equalizing with a score of 3-3 in regular time and winning 4-5 in penalty shootouts, he advanced to the final of the US Open Cup.

pink set, He won the first championship in his history with the Leagues Cup last week.He will opt for the second trophy after losing 2-0 on Wednesday. They went to overtime with a goal scored in the 97th minute. Ecuadorian Leonardo Campana.

It was the first time Inter Miami drew without scoring a goal without Messi, but they made a remarkable contribution with Campana’s two spectacular assists. Inter Miami’s third goal was scored by Venezuelan Josef Martinez, back in overtime. Argentina’s Luciano Acosta and Mexican-American Brandon Vázquez scored for Cincinnati during the rule. Japan’s Yuya Kubo scored in the second overtime period necessitating penalties.

Gerardo Martino made many changes in the starting 11 despite retaining Messi, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba. The other innovation was the change of the three-center drawing.

Cincinnati neutralized Miami

We had to wait until the 17th minute for Argentina’s Acosta to open the score. The game was born with its own boots on the left wing. An unfortunate move for the Miami defense left him on the field and faced problems, but first he hit Kamal Miller with his left foot and landed hard on the post.

The goal and some other scares were a wake-up call for Inter Miami; Inter Miami took the first shot out of three sticks quickly and was answered very well by Alec Kann. Messi’s brilliant pass made Paraguayan Diego Gómez’s crossover possible. The closing of the first episode took place with cold minutes. Cincinnati controlled the game and did not allow Miami to create play despite having control of the ball. Only two incidents by Jean Mota and Aaron Boupendza have come to naught.

On the contrary, the second

Inter Miami failed to connect with Messi and the new draw continued without result. Gradually they went several meters up and neglected the rear of the defence; It was something Cincinnati knew very well how to read. The focus of the local players was clearly to damage the counter and so a long ball landed in the right area of ​​the attack for Colombian Santiago Arias, who had too much time in the world to look up and throw the ball from the front to Vázquez. . The striker struck with enough force to set him to Drake Callender’s right. It was the 53rd minute and the distance on the scoreboard became alarming for the visiting team.

The changes worked

Martino made changes by introducing David Ruiz, Facundo Farías, and Robert Taylor. The draw returned to the usual 4-3-3 and the fight was huge: only thirty minutes to the comeback. Unable to develop a game, Inter Miami’s goal had to come from the stop ball in the 68th minute. Messi made a perfect shot from the left and sent the goal to the head of Ecuadorian Campana. I could only watch.

Already with Venezuelan Josef Martínez on the court, the Florida team grilled all the meat to force overtime and the match turned into a two-way shootout. Inter Miami’s ‘I want to, I can’t’ increased in nine minutes of overtime; ‘Tata’s every opportunity led to Cincinnati’s counterattack. And Campana and his head reappeared in the same combination. The pivot came from Ecuadorian Messi, who passed the goal and sent the game into overtime in 97..

Destan accompanies Miami

In overtime it was Martínez’s turn. A good high press assisted Alba’s recovery and this time Benjamín Cremaschi ‘played Messi’ and the Venezuelan who shot Kann between his legs. Despite their win and Cincinnati’s rush, Inter Miami put pressure from high to keep their opponent from letting the ball go, and it worked for them. Since entering the second episode, it must have been the Japanese Kubo who had been looking for her the most, wearing a tie and making her feel all the emotion. He faced rejection, and he had the temperance to adapt to it and make it out of reach for Callender.

In the 116th minute, there was a free kick in the script to reinforce Messi’s short history in the USA, but this time he could not find the squad.

Both teams were very reliable on penalties, scoring from the first four innings, until Nick Hagglund missed the fifth shot for the local team and Cremaschi scored the final goal for Inter Miami, as he did in Dallas.

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3. FC Cincinnati: blood; Hagglund, Miazga, Murphy (Powell, d. 88); Arias, Moreno (Angulo, art.88), Nwobodo, Barreal (Halsey, art.105); Boupendza (Kubo, m.62), Acosta (Gaddis, m.88) and Vázquez (Santos, m.77).

3.Inter Miami: Caller; Avilés (Allen, art.78), Kryvtsov, Miller (Taylor, art.58); Yedlin (Farias, m.58), Gómez (Martínez, m.78), Busquets, Mota (Ruiz, m.58), Alba; Messi and Campana (Cremaschi, art.90).

targets: 1-0, m. 17: Luciano Acosta. 2-0, m. 53: Brandon Vazquez. 2-1, m. 68: Leonardo Campana. 2-2, m.90+7: Leonardo Campana. 2-3, art. 93: Josef Martínez. 3-3, art.114: Yuya Kubo.

Penalties: Kubo (goal, 1-0); Messi (goal, 1-1); Arias (goal, 2-1); Farias (goal, 2-2); Saints (goal, 3-2); Ruiz (goal, 3-3); Miasma (goal, 4-3); Martinez (goal, 4-4); Hagglund (missed, 4-4); Cremaschi (goal, 4-5 finals).

Judge: Joe Dickerson (USA). On behalf of the locals, he showed Obinna Nwobodo (m. 31), Luciano Acosta (m. 85) and Alvas Powell (m. 111), Jordi Alba (m. 24), Jean Mota (m. 41) and Kryvtsov. (m. .80) by visitors.

events: The US Open Cup Semi-Final Match was played in front of approximately 26,000 spectators at TQL Stadium.

Houston Dynamo will rival

HE Houston DynamoLed by Mexican Héctor Herrera and Panamanian Adalberto Carrasquilla, the team will be Inter Miami’s opponent in the final. Houston team won Real Salt Lake 3-1 in overtime this Wednesday with goals from Herrera, Carrasquilla and Colombian Luis Caicedo; The last two goals came in extra time, as a rule, after a 90-minute 1-1 draw. Ecuadorian Anderson Julio scores for Real Salt Lake. Real Salt Lake’s Colombian Brayan Vera was ejected 2-1 in the second half of overtime.

The final of the US Open Cup will be held in Miami on September 27..