{"id":509314,"date":"2026-03-02T01:21:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=509314"},"modified":"2026-03-02T01:21:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T05:21:38","slug":"messi-and-inter-miami-with-a-4-2-comeback-win-vs-orlando-city","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/messi-and-inter-miami-with-a-4-2-comeback-win-vs-orlando-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi and Inter Miami with a 4-2 comeback win vs. Orlando City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defending MLS champs showed character as they secured the victory after being down 2 goals at halftime against Orlando City, as Inter Miami beat them 4-2 at Inter&amp;Co Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Everything began in the best way possible for Orlando as they secured a 2-goal lead after only 24 minutes of the match. Marco Pasalic opened the score in the 18<sup>th<\/sup> minute, while Martin Ojeda doubled the home side&#8217;s lead.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half was a completely different story as Inter Miami tied the result very soon. Mateo Silvetti scored only 4 minutes into the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> 45 minutes of the match, while the big superstar of the team, Lionel Messi, evened the score at 2-2 in the 57<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>In the 85<sup>th<\/sup> minute, Inter Miami took the lead for the 1<sup>st<\/sup> time in the match when Telasco Segovia was only 3 minutes later, Colin Guske was sent off for 2<sup>nd<\/sup> yellow card and left Orlando City with 10 players on the pitch.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lionel Messi scores his first two goals of 2026 as Inter Miami come back from down 2-0 to beat Orlando City 4-2 \ud83e\ude84 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lw45PSr7Iw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Lw45PSr7Iw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/2028293069301289253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The final goal in the Floridian derby came in the 90<sup>th<\/sup> minute when Messi, with his 2nd goal in the game, secured the victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The defending MLS champs showed character as they secured the victory after being down 2 goals at halftime against Orlando City, as Inter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":509315,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17501,17706],"news_category":[14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[18156,22722],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Leo and his teammates made a statement in the comeback victory.","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\/509314"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509317,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/509314\/revisions\/509317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509314"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=509314"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=509314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}