MLS/Liga MX Season Thread Now Featuring Inter Messi

Moment of the season so far:

Which is odd b/c in his time at NYRB he had 14g 4a in less than a full season's worth of minutes, and at 22-24 years old.

Tigres-Crew highlights prob worth checking out for the lulz. They drew leg 1 in Columbus at 1-1 which is probably a result that you'd think would sink the Crew. Even moreso when they gift Tigres a goal early on, but miraculously they pulled it out, so MLS won't be shut out in the semis (all 4 semifinal teams were seemingly gonna be Liga MX).

Messi will have to conjure up some of that old magic tonight if Miami will advance. They lost 2-1 at home and will need a bunch of away goals in Rayados place.

even though the match is in Mexico, I'm expecting a couple of dubious ref calls to go Inter Messi's way tonight (just like vs. Nashville). it would be a boost attention-wise for CCL to have Inter Messi in the final.

Didn't watch, but Miami must have been pathetic. And saw in the highlights that Callender gifted Rayados a goal early.

Miami had only 5 total attempts all game (1 on goal) in a match where Rayados would be content to sit back and soak up pressure. Pathetic.

Don't watch enough to know for sure, but it seems like a GM Lebron situation where Messi just wanted to bring in his friends rather than construct the best squad possible. They're still one of the better MLS squads, but with Messi plus using that money instead on the best players available in North and South America (most of whom would've loved to play with Messi), they could've been something special.

Portland Timbers - Los Angeles FC
DC United - Orlando City
New York City - New England Revolution
New York Red Bulls - Chicago Fire
Charlotte - Toronto FC
CF Montreal - FC Cincinnati
FC Dallas - Seattle Sounders
Sporting Kansas City - Inter Miami
Minnesota United - Houston Dynamo
Real Salt Lake - Columbus Crew
San Jose Earthquakes - Colorado Rapids
Vancouver Whitecaps - Los Angeles Galaxy

saving the best for last today with 1st in the west peoples' champion vwfc hosting 2nd in the west la galaxy, should be a fun L. though new old boy fafa picault has been on fire with the scorepoints so far, hopefully it continues

so of course he limps off injured after 10 minutes. you can't make it up, folks

on the glass half full side for vancouver fans, the canucks got a big win tonight.

But the MLS day belongs to Inter Messi winning at Arrowhead stadium packed with 72k fan...and horrific SKC defense (watch the highlights if u don't believe me!)

coming into today:

today:

starting to think that these guys are ok at the soccering

and hey look, another 5-assist mls game. maybe next time he'll do 6

What do you mean by another 5 assist game, has someone done it before? Vanzeir had 4 assists earlier in a game, and we were wondering if that would tie a record? Anyway, Messi has now blown past that with the 5 assist game (against Vanzeir no less) and even added a goal along with 5 assists. His overall #s are just silly:

8 matches (7 starts), 10 goals, 12 assists

He's had multiple goal contributions in all matches except 1 (only 1 goal in that 1) and he's had at least a goal and an assist in 6 of 8 matches. He also has an ongoing streak of at least 3! goal contributions in 3 straight matches.

He's already missed 4 matches though and they might start to rest him even more before the playoffs. The goals record for a season is 34 by Vela. That's probably out of reach, b/c Messi likes to set up others, but the assist record is 26 (by Valderrama in 2000), and that's a possibility. That's a record that's seemingly been out of reach as the next best tally is 20 assists, but if Messi gets close, I'm sure he could focus on setting up teammates more and break it.

oops yeah thats what i meant, 1+5 a pretty good game huh

even with the copa this year, messi should take a good run at that assist record

solid attacking team

lol yeah kind of funny to set a new record and then smash it again in 3 weeks. not sure what the max capacity is these days but i guess we're about to find out. should be 50-60k

Guy is pretty good

Would you put him up there with MLS legends like Zardes and Wondo?

messi needs a bigger body of MLS work to be mentioned in the same breath as those two

~30th minute: montreal 2 - 0 messi

imfc also had a good pk shout just before the 2nd goal but the ref declined to even look at it, lol pretty shocked over here

rojas ghana messi, 2-1

edit: now 2-2 lol

Hot start to the season for Montreal, but now everyone's injured and they suck again.

3 Miami goals and Messi without a single scorepoint might be a first.

that 2nd quakes goal is legitimately one of the most embarrassing goals I've ever seen conceeded.

timbers really need to be disbanded immediately after that.

wonder how much that ref had bet on vancouver

i mean that was a pk at the end, but yeah overall they seemed to get more decisions than normal. or perhaps he was just letting them play because it's technically a derby

ya don't really have an issue with that being a PK but almost the exact same play on the other end and don't even var it.

hope any whitecaps fans going to this didn't fork out a lot of money in advance for tix

there's gonna be a riot

well that's quite an ending in sea.
sea scores to go to up 2-0 in the 96" (9" added).

game ends 1-1.

Socialism now redistributing goals!