Lionel Messi brought out his charm once again and saved Inter Miami from its first official defeat of the season.
After a double wall with Jordi Alba, the Argentine star made it 1-1 against the Los Angeles Galaxy at the end of the match, in his second match in the MLS (Major League Soccer) in the United States.
But not only that, but Leo was also key for Callender to save a penalty against his former teammate in Barcelona, Riqui Puig.
12 minutes into the game, when the first dangerous play came for the Herons.
In an unfortunate action, Sergio Busquets knocked down Josep Paintsil inside the area and referee Gabriel Ciampi awarded a penalty for the locals.
The person in charge of executing the shot that could have changed the development of the game had been Riqui Puig.
But that didn't happen.
Drake Callender reached over his left post and managed to save the penalty
.
There is a sequence seconds before Puig will kick his penalty that was not seen in the official broadcast, but that did not go unnoticed on social networks.
It all happened when
a fan who was in the stadium filmed the exact moment in which Messi
, located in the middle of the field a few meters from the central circle,
pointed out to his goalkeeper the side on which the 24-year-old Spanish midfielder was going to kick. years
.
La Pulga knows Puig's movements very well, since he shared a team with him in Barcelona for two years (2019/2020) and (2020/2021).
Therefore, upon sensing the sector of the goal that Puig was going to kick, she decided to help Callender.
“Messi always knows,” was the phrase included in the video that was made in a matter of minutes and went viral throughout the internet.
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Finally, at 75 minutes the first goal for the Los Angeles Galaxy was going to arrive.
This time Leo could not do anything to prevent the goal, and the Serbian Dejan Joveljic was in charge of scoring to make the almost 27,000 fans who filled the Dignity Health Sports Park stadium in the city of Carson vibrate.
The next game that Messi and company will play will be on Saturday, March 2 against Orlando City at the new Chase Stadium, starting at 6:30 p.m. (Argentine time).