By a score of 2-1, Inter Miami beat Atlanta United 2-1, tied its second victory over the coach’s team Stephen Glass, third of the current season of Major League Soccer.
The Mexican Rodolfo Pizarro tied his sixth game without scoring, although, in a discreet performance, he put the assist for Miami’s second goal, which in the end sentenced the victory in the game. He left at minute 79 with a thigh ailment.
The teams started the game at maximum revolutions. Juan Agudelo surprised Atlanta with the first goal of the evening at minute 2. Atlanta responded immediately, at 5 ‘, George Bello put the assist, Jon Gallagher received the ball inside the area and with a left-foot shot equalized the score, 1 -1, just at minute 5.
During the following minutes, the actions went back and forth, both teams showed conjunction, speed, as well as balance in ball possession.
At minute 11, Diego Alonso’s team regained the advantage. Pizarro placed the serve, Brek Shea headed in and Miami made it 2-1 before the first 15 minutes of the match had been played.
Miami scored the third of the night, at 44 ‘, but the referee Jair Marrufo He invalidated it, after a revision in the VAR, due to an advanced position of the scorer Victor Ulloa and the game went to rest with the minimum advantage on the scoreboard for the Miami team.
For the complementary part, he changed the rhythm of the game. Miami lowered the revolutions and gave balls; Atlanta went forward, but the Florida team’s defense did not facilitate the creation of space and limited the arrivals of danger to its goal.
The debut of the brand new Inter signing, Argentine Gonzalo Higuaín, did not occur against Atlanta. The Mexican Erick ‘Cubo’ Torres entered as a change in minute 60, while Jürgen Damm – who suffers an injury not disclosed by the team – did not appear even on the bench.
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