Inter Miami CF coach gave away the best of the news on Friday, August 23, by stating that team captain Lionel Messi is already training and that his return is approaching.
“He is feeling better and he has been working in the field for 3 or 4 days, he had not come out until that moment and felt good,” Tata said. We can’t give time because we don’t know and it would be speculating on something that can’t do, but his return is close.
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Although he was not able to see him coach, Martino said so when he spoke to the media in Inter’s last training prior to his important match against Cincinnati FC on Saturday, August 24 (7:30 p.m. TV: AppleTV and Radio: Radio 760AM) Sports at Chase Stadium, further denying Messi’s injury was more serious than expected.
“The times are more or less,” said Tata. You’re not training with the group, but you’re already on the field and working with physical preparers and it’s evolving well. He wasn’t expected to be with Argentina because he’s not in a position to play yet, but we’re still seeing him.
Despite this moderate optimism the coach refused to give a date for his return to the pitch, but he does return before the end of the regular season.
“There is no date because you have already begun to see how you are feeling as the training in the field has been added,” said the Argentine DT. The jobs are programmed by the medical part with the physical preparers.
The Miami team marches first in the Eastern Conference with 53 points and this Saturday faces at home its immediate chaser the Cincy with 48 points, and from beating him in addition to securing already a place in the playoffs he would escape by eight points with which he would practically secure the top of the East.
For this final stretch of 8 games Inter hopes to recover Messi, although his real goal is that he reaches 100 percent for the playoffs, so we will have to measure very well every step in his recovery and when he returns to training with the team.
It’s not far away. “I would not be encouraged to tell you on any, but it is not a situation too far either,” Tata said. There’s a part of the injuries that have to do with the physical and there’s a part of the injuries that have to do with the mental, so we have to get over them both ways and I think he’s going through that process.
This week Noah Allen, the Inter side Martin is determined to turn it into central, revealed how the players see Messi these days.
“We see Messi every day and say hello,” Allen said. You also talk to a lot of players in the gym. He watches us when we train, stays with us in the facilities, and comes to all the games that are played on our court, and that has a great impact on us.
On Cincinnati’s visit will come as opposite an old acquaintance, DeAndre Yedlin, who raised with Messi the only cup in Inter Miami history, the League Cup, and also talked about Leo.
“It’s not a secret everyone wants to see,” Yedlin said. The atmosphere is different when it’s not, but Inter Miami is still a good team.
The League Cup final will be this Sunday, August 25 between LAFC, which scored 4-0 against Colorado in the semifinals, and Columbus Crew, who defeated the Philadelphia Union 3-1 and will be local.
Likewise, the eyes of the MLS will be in Miami this Saturday, in the Inter vs Cincinnati duel, with the possibility of him being the last with Messi in the stands, although being more realistic his return on September 14 at home against the Philadelphia Union is more likely.
