{"id":465146,"date":"2023-10-08T01:22:52","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T05:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465146"},"modified":"2023-10-08T00:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T04:47:36","slug":"messi-returned-but-inter-miami-lost-to-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-returned-but-inter-miami-lost-to-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi returned, but Inter Miami lost to Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi&#8217;s return to MLS action finally happened, but his team failed to win in a fourth consecutive game in the Eastern Conference, this time losing 0-1 to the leaders in the standings &#8211; Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>After 32 games, the Herons have been eliminated and practically have no chance to qualify for the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Messi entered the field in the 56th minute when he replaced Tomas Aviles with the score still 0-0. However, his presence did not help Inter Miami score a goal. In the 78th minute, Alvaro Barea scored the only goal in the match for the Cincinnati team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Inter Miami have been eliminated from the MLS playoffs \u26d4\ufe0f??<\/p>\n<p>After their October 21st match, Inter Miami will NOT play another MLS game until late February.<\/p>\n<p>Since Messi&#8217;s debut, Inter Miami only won one of the six games he missed and only lost one of the 13 he&#8217;s played in. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VxbvSMILcf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/VxbvSMILcf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1710836835553869949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Until the end of the regular season, Messi and company have two more games to play &#8211; both against Charlotte. The first is on October 18th (Wednesday) and the second is three days later on October 21nd (Saturday).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-kBJ8ed2mtY?si=qA2fMsuUI_-jvP5h\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi&#8217;s return to MLS action finally happened, but his team failed to win in a fourth consecutive game in the Eastern Conference, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":465153,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17501,17909],"news_category":[17676,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[18156,17910],"acf":{"announce":"The Herons have no chance to fight for the playoffs","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465155,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465146\/revisions\/465155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465146"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465146"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}