San Jose – The goals in Gaban praised a closed window crowds that came on Wednesday evening to see Messi and Intermiami visit the earthquakes of San Jose.
No, Messi did not score any of the five goals that dotted the nets before half-time. However, he helped a goal from the 52nd minute which led to a 3-3 draw before the 18,000 fans of Paypal Park.
Messi almost broke the tie in overtime, to be thwarted by defender Daniel Munie and goalkeeper Daniel. When Messi came across the lawn in the 94th minute in front of the penalty box, no fault was called, the game resumed and the tie would be held.
Two fans were linen by security guards while rushed on the field at the end of the game, while Messi was heading to face the officials during non-clicks earlier.
The earthquakes (5-2-6) had won their three previous games, including one in the US Open Cup. Inter Miami (6-4-2) returns home after an extended road trip which started with the defeat of 4-1 on Saturday in Minnesota.
Each team scored in the first 2 minutes of Wednesday and 5 seconds, for a revelation of 1-1. It was the fifth time in the 30 years of MLS history that two goals have come in the first three minutes, and it is the fastest since 2008.
At halftime, San Jose led 3-2, which should not have been too surprising since they had scored the most goals of MLS entering Wednesday’s matches.
It was not surprising either that Messi played a role for the purpose of a link at the start of the second half.
Messi helped Inter Miami even draw 3 in the 52nd minute from Allende’s second goal. Messi produced secondary aid – better known as hockey aid to the legend of San Jose Sharks, Joe Thornton, who was in the stands. Messi escaped defender Dave Romney to pass the ball to Baltasar Rodriguez for a cross that followed in Allende.
None of these goals in the first half came from Messi despite his tests: a right shot from the 18th minute to zipped off the left post; A diving head from the 12 yards that Daniel easily saved in the 40th minute; And, a free kick of 25 yards which has largely missed the right post while half-time expired.
Apparently, each time Messi touched the ball, the crowd reacted in unison, more with cheers than tunes.
Intermiami found the net first, just 35 seconds from the match on the head of Maximiliano Falcon. This piece started with a corner tap for Messi, and as the defenders of two earthquakes approached, he transmitted the ball to Telaso Segovia, who quickly replenished him to Jordi Alba for a possible cross that Falcon encountered in the goal box.
Chisho Arango scored the equalizer of San Jose 1 ½ minutes later, and Falcon contributed it by passing the ball to goalkeeper Oscar Ustari. An attempted compensation was cut by Christian Espinoza, who slipped a centering pass to an Arango Grand Open for his ninth goal of the team this season, one on the advance of Tai Baribo.
Arango has not stayed much longer, with an injury to the left forcing him to go out in the 31st minute for Amahl Pellegrino.
The earthquakes took ahead 2-1 on the explosion of the Beau Leroux recruit just beyond the top of the penalty box in the 37th minute. This sequence started with the passage of Centering by Vitor Costa Richocheted off Ian Harkes, then defender Sergio Busquets in Leroux, originally from San Jose.
Miami even pulled in the 44th minute, when Tadeo Allende kicked a shot at close range in front of Daniel at Far Post. It was Messi’s pass in the midfield that accelerated things, and it aroused a “Messi” song of the crowd after Allende’s goal.
San Jose slipped in front 3-2 just before half-time, gracked the left shot from Ian Harkes at the top of the penalty surface and inside the left post. Leroux was credited with the help, on the first goal of harkes with earthquakes.
An offside call canceled a goal of Espinoza green light in the 62nd minute. Two minutes later, Messi was caught off-game on an attempt to break while Munie rushed to steal the ball.
With twenty minutes to travel, in the middle of a 3-3 duel, the concessions are found and the notorious northern bar were empty because the eyes were obsessed with the game. Some fans sang the name of Messi and the support for earthquakes tried to drown this buzz.
Messi did not exactly parachute unnoticed before his first match in the bay region since a friendly match in 2009 at the Candlestick Park between FC Barcelona and Chivas of Guadalajara. Hundreds of fans gathered outside the Santana Row hotel in Inter Miami 3 miles from Paypal Park to have a preview of Messi the previous few days, and he forced them by showing them a balcony of the upper bottom.
The MLS commissioner, Don Garber, in pre-match media session, congratulated what he called a “club question” why this match remained in the San Jose place with 18,000 places rather than moving it to a larger place. That said, Levi’s Stadium and the Stanford Stadium undergo a renovation; The Oakland Coliseum will host Mexico and Japan in a friendly match on September 6.
“I give them a lot of credit. They could easily have moved this and had a much larger income evening,” said Garber. “They put their stadium to show their fans and future fans which engages with the” Quakes maybe “.
Garber noted that he arrived late – although even more than 90 minutes before kick -off – due to a traffic problem which he assigned to “all energy and activity”.
“People forget that it was one of our first specific football stadiums at a time when the model had not been proven,” added Garber. “It was important to bring this team (from Houston). If it is not for John and his family, there would be no professional team or MLS team here in this region. The club has momentum.”
Originally published:
California Daily Newspapers
