2023-07-21 21:54:35
Cruz Azul vs Inter Miami are playing in the group stage of the Leagues Cup, a tournament in which Lionel Messi’s debut is expected following his arrival in the United States. Next, he knows when the game is, what time it is played and how to watch it, among other details.
WHAT TIME DOES CRUZ AZUL VS INTER MIAMI PLAY?
The Cruz Azul vs Inter Miami match for the Leagues Cup with Messi is scheduled for this Friday, July 21 at the DRV PNK Stadium in Fort Lauderdale. The start time is at 6:00 pm from Mexico, 7:00 pm from Peru and 8:00 pm from Miami. Look at the schedules by country:
18:00 hours – Mexico
7:00 p.m. – Peru, Ecuador, Colombia
8:00 p.m. – Venezuela, Bolivia, United States (Miami, Washington)
9:00 pm – Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile and Paraguay
02:00 am on Saturday – Spain, Germany, Italy, France
CANALES CRUZ AZUL VS INTER MIAMI
MLS Season Pass on Apple TV and Univisión will broadcast the game in the United States, while Televisa and TV Azteca (Channel 7) will broadcast it in Mexico.
HOW TO SEE ONLINE CRUZ AZUL – INTER MIAMI
The match can also be viewed online through MLS Pass (Apple TV) and ViX Premium.
Messi, Busquets and Jordi Alba, ex-teammates for more than a decade in Barcelona, come to an Inter Miami bottom team in the MLS, where they have accumulated eleven games in a row without winning, and which begins their participation in the Leagues Cup, a tournament played by teams from the North American and Mexican leagues (Liga MX), where they will face Cruz Azul on the first date.
At 36 years old and the dream of lifting a World Cup fulfilled, Lionel Messi begins a new adventure in the United States league, a country that wants to enjoy its last years of soccer under less pressure.
Presented last Sunday in style as the new idol of Inter Miami, Messi will live his first experience away from the spotlight of European football, in a city culturally and geographically closer to his people. In addition, Miami and the MLS offer the ’10 ′ a project on which to build his future when he retires from the pitch.
Messi’s debut at Inter
Wearing Inter Miami’s number 10 for the first time, Lionel Messi will open a new chapter of his extraordinary career on Friday at the inauguration of the Leagues Cup, a trophy for which the 47 MLS teams and the Mexican league will compete.
This pioneering union of two leagues, for a tournament that will be played entirely in the United States and Canada until the final on August 19, gained global appeal with Messi’s decision to leave European soccer and start a new life in Miami.
In his presentation on Sunday at the DRV PNK stadium, the Argentine star summoned his new fans to meet once more on Friday for the match once morest the Mexican Cruz Azul that will open the Leagues Cup.
In that duel, which will face the last classifieds of MLS and Liga MX, both Messi and Spanish midfielder Sergio Busquets, his former Barcelona teammate, are expected to play their first minutes with Inter either as starters or starting from the bench.
Both Argentine coach Gerardo Martino and David Beckham, co-owner of the franchise, have warned in recent days that Messi will have the last word on his presence in the match, whose tickets exceed a resale price of $18,000.
“It will be Leo who decides if he is ready, because we know that he has been away for a few weeks with his family. But he looks sharp, he looks very good, ”said Beckham while he warned that Messi may need time to adapt and adjust physically.
“They both arrived very well, we can have some expectation of seeing them on Friday. But I don’t want to rush to say something that I can’t comply with later,” ‘Tata’ Martino told the Argentine sports channel TyC on Wednesday.
The Argentine counselor said this Thursday at a press conference with Busquets that “the results are expected immediately and we want it to be so, because the plan we have will surely flow better if we direct it with positive results.”
Inter Miami made official this Friday the signing of the Spanish Jordi Alba, a teammate of Messi and Busquets for a decade at FC Barcelona.
Beckham’s willingness to take pressure off his new star seems reasonable, considering that Messi, at 36, has just competed in a grueling season at Paris Saint-Germain with the added effort of the World Cup in Qatar that he won with Argentina at the end of 2022.
Inter, however, have no time to waste if they hope to turn around their disastrous season, end their current 11-game winless streak and sneak into the playoffs.
The arrival of Messi, winner of seven Ballon d’Ors, has coincided with a month-long break in MLS that gives him the opportunity to fight for a first trophy in the Leagues Cup, which also offers three tickets to the 2024 Concacaf Champions Cup, the access route to the Club World Cup.
His first rival will be Cruz Azul, one of the greats of Mexican soccer but also in low hours. Led by the veteran Brazilian coach Ricardo ‘Tuca’ Ferretti, the ‘Celestial Machine’ has not fought for the title in recent tournaments and in the current Apertura-2023 it counts its three games by defeats.
Uriel Antuna and Carlos Rodríguez, the figures of the team, have just rejoined the squad following contributing to the triumph of Mexico in the Gold Cup.
In addition to Cruz Azul, Inter will also face Atlanta United in the first phase on Tuesday, the franchise where Argentine promise Thiago Almada, Messi’s partner in the Qatar-2022 success, shines.
The three teams make up the South Group 3 in a first phase in which no game can end in a tie. In the event that there is no winner following 90 minutes, each squad will receive one point and the one that prevails on penalties will pocket another.
In total, 15 groups of three teams were formed, including 28 representatives from MLS and 17 from the Mexican league.
For having won their respective tournaments, American Los Angeles FC and Mexican Pachuca are exempt from the first phase and will join the top two from each group in the round of 32 starting on August 2.
In qualifying rounds, always in a single match, the winners will then compete in the round of 16 (between August 6 and 8), quarter-finals (11-12) and semi-finals (15).
On August 19, the final of the tournament and the clash for third place will be played, which will determine the trio of teams qualified for the Concacaf Champions Cup.
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