Messi scores but Miami suffers rout by Minnesota

Lionel Messi's 5th MLS extremity of the play wasn't capable to forestall his Inter Miami broadside from being routed 4-1 by Minnesota United successful St. Paul connected Saturday.

Bongokuhle Hlongwane, Anthony Markanich and Robin Lod each scored goals to manus Inter Miami (6-2-3, 21 points) its heaviest nonaccomplishment successful immoderate crippled wherever Messi has played.

Minnesota (6-2-4, 22 points), which bushed Austin 3-0 past clip retired to drawback a three-game winless skid, has won back-to-back games.

Miami played without guardant Luis Suárez, who did not marque the travel owed to idiosyncratic reasons, and without near winger Fafà Picault owed to illness.

Hlongwane scored his archetypal extremity of the play to springiness Minnesota a 1-0 pb successful the 32nd minute. Hlongwane, who scored a career-high 11 extremity past season, slipped down the defence and perfectly timed his tally onto a shot played up by Carlos Harvey for a one-touch decorativeness wrong the backmost station from the close country of the 6-yard box.

Markanich made it 2-0 erstwhile helium scored successful first-half stoppage time, his 2nd extremity successful arsenic galore games and the 3rd of his four-year MLS career.

Michael Boxall took a agelong throw-in to the adjacent post, wherever Nicolás Romero flicked a header backward to Markanich, who enactment distant a header from point-blank range. It was the archetypal vocation assistance for Romero, a 21-year-old successful his archetypal MLS season.

Messi scored successful the 48th minute, erstwhile helium took a transverse from Jordi Alba and rolled a changeable from the left-center of the country past the outstretched limb of diving goalkeeper Dayne St. Clair wrong the backmost post.

An ain extremity by Miami's Marcelo Weigandt made it 3-1 successful the 68th and Lod ran onto a walk from Tani Oluwaseyi and enactment distant a one-touch decorativeness -- his archetypal extremity of the play -- to headdress the scoring successful the 70th minute.

Miami bushed the New York Red Bulls 4-1 past clip retired to rebound from its archetypal nonaccomplishment of the season, 4-3 decision to Dallas astatine location connected April 27.

Miami bushed Minnesota 2-1 astatine location successful June of 2022 successful the lone different gathering betwixt the clubs.

Information from Field Level Media and The Associated Press was utilized successful this report.