Miami.- With the probable decline of Luis Suárezhe Inter Miami of Lionel Messi Visit on Saturday to Minnesota United on the twelfth date of the American League (Mls), which also holds a bitter reissue of the last final between Galaxy and Red Bulls.
In the Allianz Field of Minnesota, Inter will start a demanding six -game calendar in three weeks before concentrating on the challenge of the FIFA Club World Cup.
The Messi squad intends to recover the leadership of the East Conference after spending “the duel” for the elimination of last week in the semifinals of the Concacaf Champions Cup against Vancouver Whitecaps.
“This week we worked with another mood, with another spirit. What happened, happened. The duel we did and now focus on the MLS,” Argentine coach Javier Mascherano asked on Friday, without hiding that frustration for that resounding defeat affected Messi.
“Leo is a competitive animal. It is normal. Those who have known him for a long time know about his demand, not only with himself but with everything that surrounds him, but he is fine,” said “The Jife” about his compatriot.
Messi, who adds four goals and two assists in seven played days, could vary his position to replace his Uruguayan partner Suárez, whose participation on Saturday is in the air for personal matters.
The ‘gunman’ “has had to travel for personal reasons and we will see whether or not he arrives” to the party, he just said Mascherano.
The Argentine Tadeo Allende and the Haitian Fafà Picault also have ballots to occupy the attack tip against the rocky Minnesota United, second classified from the west with 19 points.
The Inter, on its side, is the Eastern Fourth with 21 units, three less than the leader, Columbus Crew, but with a pending match.
Expectations for the World Cup
With limited options in attack, Mascherano advanced that they are tracking the market in search of “one or two reinforcement players in the offensive part” in the face of the Club World Cup, which the Inter inaugurated in front of its audience in Miami on June 14 before the Egyptian Al-Ahly.
On his expectations in the tournament, the young coach nuanced recent statements by his player Sergio Busquets in which he admitted that Inter “is not at the level” to fight for that title.
“I understand what he meant. We do not excite ourselves to win the Club World Cup, it would be illusory. That is the reality. But that does not imply that we are not going to do our best to do a very good World Cup,” said Mascherano.
“I understand that he meant that doing a good World Cup is trying to spend the group stage and then see what happens,” said the Argentine about his former partner in Barcelona.