Colombian Luis Fernando Muriel scored one of the many with whom Orlando City He thrashed 0-3 to Inter Miamiwhich is going through a serious crisis with five losses in its last seven games counting MLS and Copa de la Concaf. The 3-3 draw against the San Jose Earthquakes and the 4-1 victory against the New York Red Bulls were the only positive thing of an Inter Miami that in its last seven duels, on the contrary, it has suffered five losses: two against the Vancouver Whitecaps in the Concacaf champions Cup (1-5 global), 3-4 against the Dallas, 4-1 against Minnesota and 0-3 against Orlando City.
In addition, Óscar Pareja, Colombian technician from Orlando City, won the face of Latin coaches to Argentine Javier Mascherano, who is in charge of Inter Miami. With Messi, Luis Suárez, Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba as headlines tonight, Inter Miami continues with enormous defensive problems and has conceded 20 goals in its last seven games.
This Florida derby was one of the strong dishes of the 'Week of the Rivalries' of the MLS, for which the League prepared several high voltage duels between neighboring equipment. The first part was very entertaining, with the two teams without giving up the attack: Inter Miami with more possession and the Orlando City looking for the backlash. Messi ran into the Peruvian goalkeeper Pedro Gallese with a right and the Argentine goalkeeper Óscar Ustari stopped Colombian Iván Angulo in two of the clearest approaches of the first half.
Tadeo Allende, among rivals of Orlando City
In minute 43 he hit the visiting team. After Inter Miami claimed a assignment to the goalkeeper, Gallese surprised with a long serve that inexplicably grabbed the local defense, so Muriel only had to control wonderful to beat Ustari and achieve 0-1. Far from facing an avalanche from Inter Miami, Orlando City enjoyed the resumption of two very clear occasions to have marked the second.
First the Argentine Martín Ojeda failed a counterattack when he was totally alone and later Alex Freeman also did not succeed in another opportunity for an Inter Miami with his ruins defense. The third was the defeated and in 53 Marco Pašalić placed the 0-2 with a left-footed shot that drained into Ustari.
Messi and company have specialized in epic comeback since their landing in Miami, but this was not their night and, tremendously misguided, they offered obvious samples of frustration without being able to scare an Orlando City that retained 0-2 solidly and that benefited from a very safe Gallese. The bad news for Inter Miami had not finished since the Argentine Ramiro Enrique crash a ball in the stick in 88 but Dagur Thorhallsson certified 0-3 in 94.
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The Inter Miami is sixth in the East with 22 points in 13 games and the next day will visit the Philadelphia Union, who is leader at that conference with 29 after 14 meetings. For its part, Orlando City is fifth in the East with 24 points in 14 games. The couple combined, which accumulates an excellent streak of 12 games in a row without losing telling all competitions, will receive Nashville on Wednesday in the US Open Cup and on Saturday it will also be measured at home but in the MLS to the Portland Timbers.
