Inter Miami arrived at Chicago’s Soldier Field on Saturday, August 31 with the idea of taking the three points… and took them, thanks in large part to an inspired Luis Suárez who scored a double and almost a hat trick.
Despite how contested the match the Miami team was more accurate and reaped another victory away from home with a 4-1 score against Fire, which despite the bulging result has very good players and is not an easy team at all.
In a frank state of thanks Suarez with his two goals (46, 65) had much responsibility in the first, as the goal came from a finish of his that the goalkeeper pulled out but hit the Chicago player Tobias Salquist and entered (25th). The fourth was scored by Robert Taylor (93) to complete the score after Georgios Koutsias (82) scored the honor.
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The Uruguayan, who was the Player of the Match, reached 16 goals in the MLS and 20 in all competitions to expand its mark as the club’s historic scorer leader in a season. Lucho is a strong candidate to be the MVP of the MLS and is one from being the tournament’s goal scorer.
With the triumph Inter (18-5-4) reached 59 points and in the absence of 7 games it consolidated at the top of the Eastern Conference, maintaining its advantage over Cincinnati, which reached 51, after scoring Montreal by the same score.
Miami despite not being able to play with Leo Messi (ankle injury), who took place at home nor with Aviles (suspended), showed champion wood, with a defense, led by master Sergio Busquets, practically impregnable and a certain attack inspired by Suarez.
The key is a solid midfield, which sometimes seems to have as many as seven men, who put a choker pressure on to recover the ball and true tiki-taka when playing it.
Undoubtedly a deserved triumph, for what worked it was and the way they knew how to win it, perfectly playing the game.
Undoubtedly we have to give credit to coach Gerardo Tata Martino for his approach and the fear that the players reflected the work of the week, leaving in the innings with Drake Callender, Marcelo Weigandt, Ian Fray, Sergio Busquets, Hector Martinez, Jordi Alba, Federico Redondo, Jannick Bright, Julian Gressel, Luis Suarez and Mario Gomez.
The first time ended 1-0 favorable to Miami, a goal that does justice to the team that was better on the court for the first 45 minutes with 53.7 percent of ball dominance and 8 shots at the door by four of its rival, two of them between the three sticks, not counting Suarez’s finish to the length of Suarez for one in Chicago.
The Fire came out suffocating in the first bars but gradually Inter took control of the game, generating more football and more danger in the Chicago area.
In the 25th minute, Miami found its prize, getting 1-0 with Salquist’s auto goal, after the goalkeeper rejected, the finish of Suarez, hit him in the chest, and unintentionally entered the goal.
The move was generated on the right when Suarez at the first touch put Gomez who after winning the bottom line was returned to him to get the Pistolero to pull out a shrapnel with the aching of goal, Chris Brady’s spectacular save was unsuccessful when Salquist on the way for the own goal that put Inter in advantage.
The rest of the time was very contested, although Miami was better with a fierce defense and generating more chances, missing very little to expand the score, although, in the end, he went to the break winning by the minimum.
Suarez, who had stuck in a phenomenal first half deserved to score and didn’t last a minute to do so at the start of the second half.
At 46 Gressel took the spherical, after poor control of poor Salquist, was ceded to Gomez who served it to Suarez inside the area on the left, so that he pulled a left-handed one to the first stick that portrayed Brady to put the first on his account and 2-0 on the scoreboard;
And at 65th came the 3-0 for Inter with Suarez’s second. In three-quarters of the court, Busquets took a foul at the feet of Alba who entered from the left and who from a touch centered it straight to Suarez whose right leg scored his double to pleasure through the center of the goal, almost causing Brady’s cry.
Martino took advantage of the difference on the scoreboard to put two changes in looking to refresh the team. Benjamin Cremaschi was entered by Gressel and David Ruiz for Redondo, but what he lost was order.
In the 82nd the Fire scored that of honor by putting the 3-1 clash with Koutsias, who finished from left to left, changing the trajectory of the ball, after a good center of Kellyn Acosta from the right side.
But Inter responded by scoring 4-1 with Taylor’s goal, which had just entered for Gomez, by left-handed a big pass to a goal by Leo Campana, who in turn had entered for Suarez, culminating in a counter-coup.
Despite the 10 minutes given by the referee, the scoreboard did not move anymore and Inter took the three points from Chicago.
