Objectives and protruding facts of MLS as a refined Messi

Inter Miami Fafa Picault winger says Javier Mascherano’s team is not in “panic mode” after the shield hopes of their supporters took a blow with a 5-3 defeat against Chicago fire in the MLS.

The Herons, whose undefeated circuit of 11 games ended despite two goals from Luis Suarez in the second half that draw them at the level, can only finish in mind if Philadelphia wins one or the other of their two remaining regular season games.

Miami sneak one and collect one. Game on. pic.twitter.com/mp4mm4k6a9

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“I don’t really have an explanation,” said Picault, whose team also attracted 1-1 to Toronto on Saturday. “This is not something we want to repeat.

“We just have to change the page and look forward to the next games. This comes back to us, as a unit, by going to our drawing board as players and following what we are supposed to do, by being unified and working on this.

Luis Suarez sachets. 🇺🇾

Miami draws one back. It will be a fun finish! pic.twitter.com/alff5nkazm

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“We are towards the end of the season, so we want to solve these problems now, but it’s still not a panic mode. We just have to do it and make sure we do it in the games.”

Luis Suarez Le Lie. 💫 pic.twitter.com/ksmtipysb0

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Inter Miami vs Chicago: Messi Mistes

With 24 goals, Messi remains an advance on Denis Bouanga du LAFC as the top scorer in the MLS and won two goalless championship games for the third time this season.

Messi shot against a post after the head of Dje d’Avilla from the corner of Maren Haile-Selassie gave an advance an advance of the 11th minute, but Jonathan Dean then exploited amply space to the right to enter the box and double the advantage of visitors 20 minutes later.

Chicago leads Miami after 10 minutes. Dje d’Avilla opens the scoring!

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Tomas Aviles pushed in a 39th minute response after the corner of Messi and Suarez hit the interior of the penalty surface twice after restarting, only for Justin Reynolds to restore Chicago’s advance with an 80th minute Tap-in before Bryan Gutierrez finished the scoring in a spectacular long-range style.

Chicago shoots again. 💥

Jonathan Dean doubles his head! Miami is amazed. pic.twitter.com/bkwca3qhxf

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“We clearly have a lot to improve,” said Mascherano. “We were incoherent throughout the year, but the team also had a lot of good spells.

This game. 🥜@Chicagofire Do it 3-1! pic.twitter.com/gdqcucfpic

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“If a player does not understand what the coach wants, he is the responsibility of the coach not to express this as clearly as possible.

Justin Reynolds gives Chicago the head again pic.twitter.com/e2smbt7r5c

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“I will try to transmit our ideas to players in a better way, so that what happened (against Chicago) no longer happen again.”

Oh my Brian Gutierrez Banger to do it 5-3 on Miami 🔥 pic.twitter.com/hjbi5tzrbg

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Inter Miami Fixtures, Calendar

While Chicago celebrates the end of the longest active wait for a place of playoffs by returning to the post-season competition for the first time since 2017, the form of Miami could dive at the wrong time.

The most prominent team of the MLS is in the middle of a series of seven games in 21 days and may need five points of their last three regular season games to seal a place in the first four, ensuring that they first have a home advantage in the initial series in the first three series in the playoffs, as well as two home games if their equality required a third match.

Mascherano changed all his starting defense to the expectation of Jordi Alba, then made three substitutions at halftime by bringing Baltasar Rodriguez, Ian Fray and Tadeo Allende for Aviles, Marcelo Weigandt and Telasco Segovia.

Miami is the next in action on Saturday (19:30 he / 16:30 pt / 00:30 BST Sunday) at home in New England, which is guaranteed to finish 11th.

Inter Miami vs Chicago Fire Statistics

• Chicago has five wins for the three of Miami in the history of 10 games of the match and directs the Global 20-16 score
• Miami had won the two previous meetings before a 0-0 draw in Chicago on April 13
• Luis Suarez is the only Miami player to have never scored more than once for the club against Chicago, filling up four times in the match in total
• Avilla’s goal was the first time that Chicago scored in the first 15 minutes against Miami
• Messi has 32 goals and 14 assists in 40 appearances this season
• The nine victories outside Chicago this season broke a club record established in 1999
• Their 41 goals outside in 2025 are a club record for a single campaign
• New England and Nashville (both in 2021) are the only previous teams to have marked five at Chase Stadium