Inter Miami look like the old PSG or last few Barcelona teams with Lionel Messi, and that’s not a good thing

Paris Saint-Germain was in the mood, there were few teams from the highest echelons of football that could stay with them. There was nothing that Inter Miami could have done to break a movement that was as complicated as it ended with Joao Neves who struck an overlapping Fabian Ruiz for PSG’s second. However, that is not the same, because Lionel Messi and the company were particularly suitable for the challenge of the European champions.

It was wondered if there were those at PSG who saw a few of the characteristics of what came down on the bad old days in the Parc des Princes, the team that seemed to have been built to satisfy the whims of a really great football player, who had no idea what to do without possession and were totally dependent on one or two players who just did something When they had it.

Inter Miami felt like a Lionel Messi team, just not the one you remember best. Instead, they had been scammed in Barcelona in the last few years when he was wearing an offensive load, the weird PSG stay where all the attacking talent stood by his side, but the other team played as a unit.

Whatever the value of Messi has brought for the American football project and indeed to the results of Inter Miami in his time at the Club-IS it fair to note that the catering has provided the big man for a team that is unique not suitable for the best teams in the world. Instead of surrounding Messi with the legs to do his run for him, the club hierarchy offered the Argentinian a chance to be reunited with his 30-year-old friends.

If he could have a do-over, Jorge Mas and David Beckham might have been better off to finance a long weekend in the Hamptons for some Barcelona legends and then sign more dynamic players. According to all reports, the most attractive factors for Messi were when he left PSG, life in Miami and the financial incentives of MLS partners. Would he have gone to Saudi Arabia because he couldn’t play with Jordi Alba?

Messi is still able to amplify Brilliance, a brilliant pass early in the second half that Luis Suarez with a beautiful first volley in the two or three meters of space between the PSG defense and the goal line and the goal line. Perhaps the younger Suarez could have gone up in the first time. It would have been an unimportant goal, but all the more delicious. In Flitsen, the old men of Inter Miami brought an intoxicating rush of nostalgia. For 90 minutes, PSG showed how the game has been advanced since the heyday of Messi.

The Argentinian still has the facilities to excel at the highest level; If he ever returned to the big five competitions of Europe, he would certainly illuminate a top, especially with runners around him. Messi can still be charming and blinding, but in Inter Miami Pink he has the appearance of the one -off Lothario in the house of the old people. He had the movements; He just needed a little longer to get started.

That this only ended 4-0, probably said more of PSG’s restraint to overload itself in the heat of almost 90 degrees. From the moment that Khvicha kvaratskhelia slid to the left touchline, took the time to judge his options and rolled the ball to Bradley Barcola, cleverly refused by Oscar Ustari, it was clear that the French side was in the mood to get the basic right, to get the Tide. They didn’t do that.

Nobody in Pink seemed to take on the back post, where Joao Neves, the smallest player on the field, strolled in unarkly to make a header home working. They were lucky that their carelessness was not punished twice, Barcola shortly thereafter in the same position, an offside Fabian Ruiz on the net on the net. This seems to be something of a pattern with Inter Miami, which this season allows the most set-piece goals per game in MLS.

Again, those characteristics of Pre-Luis Enrique PSG behind their heads. When Inter Miami was in Mercedes-Benz Stadium to play Atlanta United, it would not have been a problem if they were too passive from possession, if they were not there in the week. They had a huge talent advantage at the highest level; Messi or even Alba could take the game apart in an instant, just as they had in Ligue 1 or La Liga.

They wouldn’t do that with PSG. Even one of the big Messi teams is said to have been pushed hard by Kvaratskhelia et al. Inter Miami’s bad cover version of Messi -Ball would never make a competition.