Lionel Messi-Luis Suarez’s Inter Miami lost again in the pre-season preparation match. This time, the MLS club left the field with a last-minute goal by Malcolm, former teammate of Messi-Suarez, to Al Hilal in the Riyadh Season Cup.
The match took place on Monday (January 29) at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. Messi, Suarez and David Ruiz scored for Miami. Aleksandar Mitrovic, Abdullah Al Hamdan and Mikael O Malcolm scored for Al Hilal.
If Neymar was on the pitch in Al Hilal’s jersey, the football world would have seen Barcelona’s ‘three jewels’ at least one more time. But the Al Hilal star is out of the field due to injury. Therefore, his reunion with the two former teammates of Barcelona Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez did not happen. However, on this day, the visitors who came to watch the game at the Kingdom Arena have been charged. The thrill of 7 goals is not seen every day.
Al Hilal took the lead in the match by 3-1 in the first half. Aleksandar Mitrovic scored the first goal for the team from the assist of Serbia’s Milinkovic in the tenth minute of the game. Miami scored the second goal three minutes after the first goal. This time the scorer is Abdullah Al Hamdan.
Falling behind by 2 goals, Miami became desperate to redeem the goal. In the 34th minute of the match, Uruguayan star Luis Suarez scored a Konakuni shot after receiving the ball from the team’s attack. The referee declared it a goal with the help of VAR. It was Suarez’s first goal for Miami, and the club’s first on the preseason tour. Before that, Suarez had two good chances to score. Hit a shot outside. Al Hilal goalkeeper Alwtayan blocked the other.
However, Miami had to go to the break with disappointment. Because in the 44th minute of the match, Michelle Delgador’s goal from the assist of Abdullah Al Hamdan of Al Hilal made the score line 3-1. Not only that, Messi sent the ball into Al Hilal’s net once before conceding the goal. But Suarez was offside on that journey.
Lionel Messi scored from the penalty spot after the break. Miami got a penalty after fouling David Ruiz in the 54th minute of the match. Inter Miami equalized in the next minute thanks to Ruiz. LMten was involved in all three of Miami’s goals. But his team did not win the match. After the match returned to equality, both teams seemed to have given up on the game. Messi-Alba-Busquets’ ex-Barca teammate Malcolm put the final nail in Miami’s coffin as the match headed for a thrilling draw. The Brazilian headed the goal from Yasir Al Shahrani’s cross in the 88th minute of the match.
As a result of this loss, Inter Miami is still winless after playing three matches in pre-season preparation. They lost to FC Dallas after a draw with El Salvador. This time, Neymar’s club Al Hilal had to accept defeat. Miami will play their second match in Saudi Arabia against Al Nasr on Thursday.
