Inter Miami’s visit to New England Revolution for the MLS started on the wrong foot, a constant in the last few games: Tomás Chancalay woke everyone up early and put the home team ahead after 37 seconds.
Chancalay celebrated early against Inter Miami. @NERevolution
The former Colón, Racing and Al-Wals, in the Massachusetts team since last year, He received a great assist from the Spanish Carles Gil behind the Garzas defense and, taking advantage of the poor start of goalkeeper Drake Callender, he scored from above and opened the scoring early.
Inter Miami had taken the ball out of the middle, but after some passes in his own half the defender Nicolas Freirepart of an entirely Argentine defense (with Marcelo Weigandt, Tomás Avilés and Franco Negri), made a serious mistake when giving the ball to Gil, who quickly turned around and found Chancalay poking.
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The 25-year-old striker from Entre Ríos added his eleventh goal for the Revolution, 6 in 2023 and 5 in 2024but the previous four this year had taken place in the Concacaf Champions Cup, so it opened its account in the current edition of the Best League Soccer (in 9 presentations).
It is not the first time that Lionel Messi’s team receives a goal from the locker room. In fact, it had happened to him in his last two games, against Nashville (Negri, against at 2′) and Sporting Kansas City (Erik Thommy, at 6′). The pink team turned both matches around, like this Saturday, with the two goals and the assist from Messi, who gave another show on North American soil.
This season, Nashville, for the Concacaf Champions Cup (Jacob Shaffelburg at 4′), and New York Red Bulls, for the MLS (Lewis Morgan at 3′), had also taken advantage of the lukewarm start of the team led by Tata Martino, who leads the Eastern Conference.
The games that Inter Miami started losing and ended up winning or drawing
February 25: LA Galaxy 1-1 Inter Miami (MLS)
7 de marzo: Nashville 2-2 Inter Miami (Champions Cup)
16 de marzo: DC United 1-3 Inter Miami (MLS)
April 6: Inter Miami 2-2 Colorado Rapids (MLS)
13 de abril: Sporting Kansas City 2-3 Inter Miami (MLS)
December 20: Inter Miami 3-1 Nashville (MLS)
27 de aril: New England Revolution 1-4 Inter Miami (MLS)
