Inter Miami vs. Sporting Kansas City, for MLS 2024: goals, summary and controversies

At Arrowhead Stadium, Las Garzas won a vibrant match 3-2 in which La Pulga contributed a great goal and an assist. In addition to their conquest, Diego Gómez and Suárez scored, while Thommy scored a double for the local team.

Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and company in a key victory for Inter Miami in Kansas City (Kyle Rivas/Getty Images).

Sporting Kansas City

Inter Miami

Fin

70′ 2T: Inter Miami – Goal from a play by Luis Alberto Suárez Díaz 57′ 2T: Sporting Kansas City – Goal from a play by Erik Thommy 50′ 2T: Inter Miami – Goal from a play by Lionel Andrés Messi Cuccittini 17′ 1T: Inter Miami – Goal from a play by Diego Alexander Gómez Amarilla 5′ 1T: Sporting Kansas City – Goal from a play by Erik Thommy

Inter Miami needed a win on its visit to Sporting Kansas City, after an inauspicious streak of five unsuccessful games that included its elimination from the Concachampions at the hands of Monterrey of Mexico. And, with difficulty, he emerged victorious from a sometimes uphill development and settled, with one more game, at the top of Zone A of Major League Soccer.

The start of the first half was fertile ground for the local team, who seemed determined to attack Gerardo Martino’s team. And with that pressure so high it didn’t take long to cause the error of Marcelo Weigandt, who headed in when he shouldn’t have, delayed a delivery and allowed Tim Leibold to take the ball from him so that Erik Thommy ended up beating Drake Callender after five minutes from the right with a shot to the far post.

However, the Herons managed to even out the actions and begin to gravitate immediately afterwards, already down on the scoreboard. And they achieved equality at 17, when Messi did his thing, seeing Diego Gómez’s sneaky shot from the left to enable it, allowing the Paraguayan to also finish at the far post.

Certainly, the visitor did not face great pressure again, and even came close to going ahead with a free kick from La Pulga that passed centimeters from Tim Melia’s left post. And, although at the beginning of the complement it seemed that the host could repeat the formula, Messi appeared at five to receive a touch from David Ruiz, settle in and take a huge shot to the goalkeeper’s left corner.

However, Kansas did not want to give up and continued to gravitate, to get a goal out of the blue in the 12th when the plugged-in German Thommy volleyed a rebound from a corner and surprised with a shot at the near post that hit the post and went in. But at 25, in a process without respite, Jake Davis made a mistake in an exit, Gómez stole the ball from the left and sent the low center past for Luis Suárez to push through the far post with the goalkeeper halfway there.

Finally, Kansas ran out of gas and Inter was able to rest on the fruits of their hard work, with the only – and not insignificant – concern being the departure due to injury of Jordi Alba, the only low point of a victory that they needed.

Sporting Kansas City vs. Inter Miami, by MLS of the United States: minute-by-minute monitoring