Lionel Messi, Inter Miami eliminated from Concacaf Champions Cup semis in ugly loss to Vancouver Whitecaps

In the biggest match in the history of Inter Miami, they were played from the field by the Vancouver Whitecaps, which booked a place in the Concacaf Champions Cup final with a 3-1 win over Wednesday in Chase Stadium. Sebastian Berhalter was the best player on a pitch with Lionel Messi with a goal and two assists, with which Concacaf herd was really shown in this competition and sent the world cup winner and friends to home in a draw where they were the favorites before the first leg started.

Early it seemed that the Herons would have the chance to repeat their FC Comeback in Los Angeles in the quarterfinals when Jordi Alba scored only nine minutes, but could recover Vancouver and play the first half to a 1-0 Miami benefit.

In the second half, the Jesper Sorensen team made adjustments when Berhalter helped goals for Brian White and Pedro Vite, separated by less than two minutes. At that time, the body language was shown on some members of Inter Miami that this would be a mountain that they could not climb, even with Messi. Then Berhalter added his own goal in the 71st minute, which shows that some Miami cracks that have recently shown can actually be fixed in the team.

Messi has been excellent this season for the herons with eight goals and two assists in all competitions, but Luis Suarez’s scoreless Streak has now reached eight games in all competitions. The score of Tadeo Allende has also cooled and the defense is again to allow goals in bunches. After continuing with players such as Leonardo Campana, Robert Taylor and Julian Gressel, there are questions with which Javier Mascherano and De Herons are confronted about their schedules makeup.

The World Cup Club looms, but when they play how they did at the end of April, they don’t even come from the group stage of that tournament. The Whitecaps came in with a plan as a team and performed it to perfection. They may have lost Berhalter for the final because of the accumulation of the yellow card, but under Sorensen it is clear that they have the team to win it without an important piece.

It is something that Miami has to get a page, because at some point Messi will not be here. What happens at that time when the herons are built to be Messi and friends instead of a coherent team? It is a bleak photo and it can be reversed if Mascherano can make adjustments. If he can’t do that, it can be a long season for them.

For the Whitecaps they will be confronted on 1 June with Cruz Azul or Tigres in the Champions Cup final.