{"id":7251,"date":"2026-08-30T02:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7251"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:47:29","slug":"lionel-messi-scores-4-goals-leads-inter-miami-to-historic-7-1-win-over-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/?p=7251","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi Scores 4 Goals, Leads Inter Miami To Historic 7-1 Win Over Montr\u00e9al"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"subnav-title ff-ffc bold fs-23 lh-25 uc pd-b-10\">\n            BROWSE BY\n          <\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Lionel Messi scored four goals and assisted one to lead Inter Miami to a historic 7-1 win over CF Montr\u00e9al on Saturday at Nu Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Messi scored his first goal, and Inter Miami&#8217;s second of the night, in the 40th minute from a direct free kick that caught Montr\u00e9al goalkeeper Thomas Gillier off guard at the near post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Messi scored again 12 minutes later after dribbling past three Montr\u00e9al defenders. His 16th goal of the season tied him with FC Dallas&#8217;s Petar Musa for the 2026 MLS season-high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Messi completed his hat-trick with a chipped shot in the 83rd minute, just three minutes after he assisted Luis Su\u00e1rez for Inter Miami&#8217;s fourth goal of the evening. Messi has scored 62 hat-tricks in his club career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>Messi scored his fourth and final goal from another direct free kick. He is the ninth player in MLS history to score at least two direct free kicks in a single match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" data-v-0a453225>The 7-1 win was Inter Miami&#8217;s largest margin of victory in club history, and the first time the club has scored seven goals in a single match. The MLS record for most goals by a team in a single match is eight (LA Galaxy, 1998).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BROWSE BY Lionel Messi scored four goals and assisted one to lead Inter Miami to a historic 7-1 win over CF Montr\u00e9al on Saturday at Nu Stadium. Messi scored his first goal, and Inter Miami&#8217;s second of the night, in the 40th minute from a direct free kick that caught Montr\u00e9al goalkeeper Thomas Gillier off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play-live.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}