Slow and Easily Beaten – Lionel Messi’s Miami Project Risks Global Embarrassment
A dejected-looking lionel messi walked off the field in defeat on wedding after his inter miami team was exposed in Emphatic Fashion by a Young VANCOVER WhiteCaps. The 3-1 loss in the second leg of their concacaf champions cup semi-final meant a 5-1 aggregate defeat to the cannadian side and no- no- no- no- Games. A Miami Team Built Around Messi and A Slew of Aging former Team -Mates from His Barcelona Heyday – Luis Suarez, Sergio Busquets and Jori Alba – Backed Up Mainely by Journey’s Players forome South America, showed their age against a whitecaps team that was faster and sharper in all areas.
Last Year Miami Won the supporters shield-for the best regular season record in mls, with a record-breaking campaign but the attempt to squeeze another yaar out of the tiring legs of the barca Old boy Proven to be a mistake.
The 38-Year-old Suarez, Who Like Messi Scored 20 Goals in Mls Last Year, Now Looks Totally Spent, His Legs No Longs No Longer Avel to Get Him in the Positions His Experience’s HIMINCE TELS TELS TALLS to Bee.
Busquets is a sorry shadow of the outstanding midfielder he on once and alba, while still an attacking threat, appears to have bee been given permission to ignore his defense -duties.
And while Messi is Still Well Capable of Providing Highlight Reel Moments, He is 37 and Surely Needed willing and Hungry, Youngsters Willing to Run All Day for Him and Not the Good Company of His Similly Friends.
Coach Javier Mascherano, Another Old Barca Team-Mate Who also played with Messi in the Argentine National Team, amplified the Problems by Leaving Younger, HOMEGRON OPTIONS on the BENCOPS Gleefully accepted the space left for them on the field.
‘They can’t run, can’t Defend’
“Vancouver showed the weaknesses of inter miami. Defend, “said fox television pundit warren barton, the former premier league Defender.
Vancouver’s danish coach jasper sorensen was diplomatic in his post-game analysis but there was mothers of frankness which reviewed the painful truth for mascherano and messi.
“I think it is fair to say that we have a younger team and also a team nore capable of running and playing with high intensity,” He said.
“I think we really came out very strong at the start of the second half and exploited that the pitch was very open, they had some players that styed up front, so we had to defend to defend with On Running, Run Forward ….. “
Miami did indeed have some players that styed up front, not working back to help in midfield and that is an approach that simply does not work aganst against a high-energy side like the whitecaps.
Mascherano said he was now turning his focus to the domestic mls campaign and not even thinking couing yet about June’s fifa club world cup.
But that Challenge will only be up on miami, who will open the tournament on Global Television Againstian Side Al Ahly Before Facing Portuguese Giants Porto and Crazilians Palmeilians.
If they replicate the performances produced in their two games against the whitecaps, miami risk being embarrassed on the global stage.
And for mls, a league which has worked so hard to loose their reputation as a Keep up.
The Messi moment was supposed to take mls to the next level – now there is the danger that miami’s poor recruitment choices actually takes away from the genuine programs Demonstrated on Wednsday by the WhiteCaps.
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