San Pedro Sula- The Argentine star Lionel Messi Guio on Saturday at Inter Miami In the 5-0 win over the Olympia of Honduras, in a friendly match played in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula.
The Captain of Inter Miami and Argentina opened the scoring at 26 minutes of play; They expanded their compatriot Federico Redondo (43), Noah Allen (45+1), Uruguayan Luis Suárez (54) and Ryan Sailor at 79 minutes.
Olimpia, the club with the most Honduras titles with 38, could never find the path of the goal in the match, played against about 25,000 fans, many with Inter Miami shirts or the Argentine National Team.
The Rosario score arrived after receiving a leaked ball from the ‘gunman’ and marking at pleasure with the free arch.
That goal served for Miami to bend to Olimpia, which never showed resistance and let another two goals be fit before the first half ended.
A docile rival
Messi was the architect of the second goal by making a single, but effective, goes to Redondo who had no compassion for the local goalkeeper Edrick Menjívar. Three minutes later, the first part of the first part, Allen was responsible for increasing.
With the 3-0 against which the first part ended, a more bulky score for the second half was foreshadowed and it was Suárez who took care of it when obtaining his annotation seven minutes before he was replaced.
Messi and Suarez played only 61 minutes after being relieved by Santiago Morales and Rubert Taylor, respectively, with the 4-0 score in favor of the American team.
Sailor was in charge of putting the final 5-0 when eleven minutes were missing to finish the match.
This is the fourth victory in 2025 of Inter Miami on its preparation and the second one that it gets in the 90 minutes, because on February 2, Panamanian Sporting of San Miguelito beat the Panamanian Sporting of San Miguelito at the Rommel Fernández stadium, in the city of Panama.
The other two games won them in definition by penalties, against America of Mexico (3-2) on January 18 in Las Vegas, and University of Peru (5-4) on January 29 in Lima.
Alignments
Olimpia: Edrick Menjívar (Alex Güity); Edwin Lobo (Kevin Guity), Julián Martínez (Yasir Pagada), Jonathan Paz (Josson Castillo), Emanuel Hernández, Gabriel Araujo; Carlos Pineda, Jorge Alvarez (Marcos Montiel), Mario Pinto (Kevin López); Jorge Benguché (Yustin Arboleda) and Jerry Bengtson (Edwin Solano) DT: Eduardo Espinel.
Inter Miami: Óscar Ustari (Rocco Ríos); Marcelo Weigandt (Tyler Hall), Ian Fray (Fafá Picault), Héctor Martínez (Ryan Sailor), Noah Allen; Sergio Busquets (Julian Gressel), Federico Redondo, David Ruiz (Benja Cremaschi), Tadeo Allende (Leo Alonso); Lionel Messi (Santiago Morales) and Luis Suárez (Rubert Taylor). DT: Javier Mascherano.
