Inter Miami 2-0 Real Salt Lake Live Postgame Show

What is up everybody? From Messi & Co, I am here with Ashley Silvers. She's actually at the game right now and I just finished watching the game. What a game. I think a lot to talk about, a lot to digest. A 2-0 game in favor of Inter Miami. I think that, I mean, we saw after what we had seen during the preseason. I think that there was definitely a lot of stuff that we were kind of questioning and iffy about, but I don't know. I don't know. I feel good after watching this game. I definitely feel good. How do you feel about this game, Ashley? Yeah, what's up? Yeah, I'm in, you know, post-game traffic as you can imagine, so I am happy to be here. And yeah, look, it was, I totally agree that it was a really, really good game and that I'm super happy with the performance of the boys and, you know, there was a lot of questions that we had about what is the, you know, what's the shape going to be? What's our defensive looks going to be? And how are we going to be able to score goals? Are we going to be able to keep it going for 90 minutes? And while it wasn't a perfect second half, there was some great play. I saw strong midfield, strong defensive line, and overall very happy with the performance. Yeah, I'm really happy too. I am so happy that we had that 4-3-3. I knew it would be. I was extremely happy when I saw that lineup came out 4-3-3. And not only the formation, but the actual personnel was excellent. Like, it was great. So I think that based off of what Dada had said in his conference, I think it was yesterday, we knew that Gresel was going to be a starter. I mean, he was talking about amazing things about Gresel and he basically said, imagine if after everything I just told you guys about Gresel, if he doesn't start tomorrow. So that was kind of a given. But I think one of the things that we were kind of wondering was, and there was a lot of debate I saw online, was it going to be Gomez or was it going to be Taylor on the left wing? And they both played. I thought that was great. And look, you know, I was saying on the live stream a couple of days ago when I was talking with the chat with our viewers, I said, you know, who is going to get the nod? And what has Robert Taylor done to not deserve to start for this team? He hasn't done much. I thought he was just getting poor luck because of Gomez and because of formations. But lo and behold, he starts and he scores a great goal in the in that bottom left corner. So I'd even said on the chat that when you were going to play soccer with your friends that you were playing in a 4-3-3. We knew that was coming. Yeah, no, that was awesome. Yeah, that was great to see them both there because it was like, why does it have to? I mean, they don't play the same position, Gomez and Taylor. I mean, you can have you can have Taylor is just so dynamic. He's a guy that can create his own space by himself and go on a one on one, take the player or the defender, whoever's in front of him. Gomez is very offensive minded, but he's excellent at passing. He's a guy that's always going to look to score. It's just kind of a bit different, but it was just nice to have them both there because when I saw that lineup to me, it spoke volumes because I was thinking, OK, that that is not going to play defensive here. He wants to make sure that they score. He knows that that's something that gets in the preseason. He noticed, man, we're not scoring. That's something that we need to make sure we do. And right off the get go, he went with a very with a very offensive lineup. So I thought that that was great. Totally. I mean, I totally agree. And look, I think that Gomez playing left midfield is is exactly where, you know, I think he does a good job because he he's an engine. He he made good runs forward and he he had a couple opportunities and maybe a couple passes that he wish he can get back. But overall, I think he played a good game. Unlucky for Ruiz, who I think had a great preseason and also just as well deserved to start, didn't get the nod. But in the end, I mean, Tata got it right. I would have liked to see our center back pairing of Frere and Aviles, but obviously Frere is still dealing with that injury. I thought Christophe was shaky to start, but he grew into the game for sure. And it was a great defensive effort at the end. I think Luis Suarez honestly had a really good game from what I could see, like great holds of play, great intuitive passes. That goal for Diego Gomez was all because of obviously it started with Messi, but Suarez, a fantastic pass in the box and unlucky to not score on towards the end of the game when he when he shot that ball low and hard at the goal. And, you know, he I'd say nine times out of 10, he scores that goal. And so overall, a really a really good start. Yeah, let's. So one of the topics of concern with this team coming into the well, not not coming into the season because of the experience we had last season. And then obviously what we saw in the preseason was the defense, right? We lost one of our best defenders and Kamal Miller. And I mean, we were kind of like in shambles. A lot of a lot of fans and a lot of analysts and people that report on the team. You know, what are we doing? Silver's. Yes. Yes. A lot of Ashley Silver's. Exactly. So, I mean, I'm looking at this defense and it felt a lot more solid than what I thought it was going to look like. So I was pleased there. I think that one of the things that happened with the defense is and something I noticed that that did is, you know, one of the things that we were suffering from a lot last season was when Alba and yet then would go up to help in the attack. The we would give the ball up and it would turn into a quick counterattack and it would just leave us in shambles on the back line where we'd have two, three, four of the opposite team against Kristoff and Aviles or or whoever else. And that was really bad for us. So one of the things I noticed that that that did this time around is I feel like he staggered a bit more on the attack. So he was making sure that if if Alba or Yadlin, like they weren't both really high up, it was either like one or the other. But one of the main things was that Busquets was helping a lot more on that back line, which was allowing Alba and Yadlin to be more aggressive because they had that safety net of basically it was almost like almost like a hybrid back three with Aviles, Kristoff and Busquets a lot of the times. I'm not sure you noticed that, but yeah, that was I think that that was a really good call on that part. And that really helped our defense. Now, the defense and the midfield is something else. Like, how did you see that midfield? Because on TV, they looked excellent, especially in that first half. So let's stick to the first half because the second half is it's like a tale of two different stories. But in that first half, man, the Gressel and Gomez did amazing to stop that attack. What it looked like to you? A hundred percent agree. A hundred percent agree. I would even start by saying that I thought someone who I give who we both give a hard time to and has had his ups and downs, DeAndre Yadlin had a really great game. I really thought he did. I thought he made almost every right choice, whether it was to stay back defensively in track or it was to move forward to try and get that final third. So I want to give a shout out to him because I thought, you know, like you said, that that sort of back three to back four that kind of went in and out did a really good job. And to your point, yeah, the midfield was really, really great. I thought, like you said, Busquets definitely had more of a defensive role than we've seen him in the past, which I think helped. And Gressel, who I had given some slack to in the preseason for being a little rusty, not necessarily fitting in with the team, did a really great job. He had a couple errant passes, but, you know, throughout through a 90 minutes, not every pass can be perfect. And I agree with you that I think he made a ton of right decisions. So did Gomez. It was a really great balance in midfield from the defensive end and the attack and just transitioning from that from the second to the final third. And everything you said, it was it was a really good game. And look, for what we saw from this inner Miami team in the preseason, we saw a lot of, you know, not sure about who was going to fit where, where the goals were going to come from, where the goals were going to be stopped, you know, because we had no clean sheets and we got a great clean sheet today. Hey, it was a good performance. It was a great way to start the season off with the win against a team we didn't know very well against. I mean, Diego Luna, great player, the striker from LFC from previously. I'm sorry, I'm blanking on his name, but really great players that that we kept quiet all game. And so hats off to them. Great game plan by Tata. Great execution by the team. And hopefully we can keep it going. Yeah, exactly. So that first half was was really good. I think that was the between the two halves, that was definitely the better, the better one for me. And in respect to an all team game, everybody playing on top of their game, we had that beautiful goal that Robert Taylor goal, which starts off with Boosie. That's something that Booskets does amazing is making sure that once he recuperates that ball in the midfield, he puts that excellent pass. He puts the excellent pass to Messi, then Messi takes it down the middle and puts that pass over to Robert Taylor, which for a second, it seemed like it was a little bit too far to the right. But Robert Taylor got it at a pretty difficult angle to score on and just rifles it past the goalie. So yeah, and I was feeling really confident after that that first half and we were generating a lot of opportunities, a lot of goal scoring opportunities. And I think that it was just taking into consideration that it was the first game, and we're going to be rusty. And I feel like a lot of these opportunities that we didn't finish as the season progresses, as they get more games under their belt, they'll be more, they'll be more accurate, and we'll start to finish more more of these. So but it was really good, really great first half, then the second half comes around. And it just so happens, I tweeted during the first half talking about how amazing that midfield was. But as they come out, they come out really shaky, that midfield. And that's what kind of, I think, gave hope to RSL to kind of feel like they had a chance to get back in this game, because they weren't generating a lot of their own plays, they weren't generating a lot on the offensive end, a lot of what ended up happening was because of the mistakes that our midfield was, was giving them, they started to pressure. Salt Lake started to pressure a lot more, which in turn made our midfield kind of nervous, they weren't being accurate. Gomez had a really bad pass that turned into an opportunity for them. Busquets had like two bad passes, I think it was that ended up being an opportunity for them. So whereas Salt Lake was respecting Inter Miami a lot more in the first half and kind of backing up and, and letting Inter Miami take charge. They came in the second half and said, Yeah, we're not doing that anymore. We're gonna put pressure on you guys. We're gonna make you make mistakes. And that's where that midfield got kind of shaky there and gave them a lot of opportunities to kind of get back into it. Yeah, no, I agree. I agree. I think that, you know, when a team is leading at the half, the first 15 minutes of the second half are always the most difficult because it's when the losing team tries to pounce and you know, make their mark and catch you off guard and we had shaky moments for sure. But it's going to be a very long season. There's a lot of games and to be able to see this early on the resolve and the ability to get a clean sheet to make it through the ups and downs and the, you know, the errors left me feeling really, really positive. I think that it's our defense has been a huge question. We've talked about it a lot on this podcast. Last season. In this preseason, we saw a lot of poor goals given up, shaky defensive line, shaky Drake calendar. And tonight, totally put that to rest. You know, obviously, this is only the first game, but so far, really put it put it to rest. And I was I was really happy just with the overall cohesion of the team. Yeah, the second half, we weren't seeing as fluid football as we saw the first half, but that comes with, you know, having that 1-0 lead. It comes with seeing the first game of the season, everyone getting their feet wet, you know, etc. Busquets, who played, I mean, towards the end of the game, he was starting to feel his ankle a bit, I think and, and, you know, needed to come out. But it was it was the performance we needed. And even Messi, Messi, who, you know, had some phenomenal plays and some plays that are only he can do, you know, we saw a couple, you know, misplaced passes, or maybe like a little over, over, over kicked, or, you know, he, he was a step behind for some of them. But it's just, even when he's not at 100, like percent or playing, you know, his perfect game, it's still better than everyone on the field. So yeah, it was, it was still it was still really good to see. And you know, there's certainly we could all have criticisms about certain players, we can have criticisms about shaky moments. But this is a results driven sport and a results driven league. And we have we're 2-0. And you know, we're going strong. Yeah, definitely. It was 2-0. It could have been a lot more. Again, just I know, I couldn't believe we didn't get an especially in that last 15 minutes. Like, yeah, I could I thought we were gonna score like seven times. I was even saying to my mom, I'm like, what's so crazy about Messi is that that that opportunity had that he tried to, you know, that he he chipped it and they blocked it for that goal that he took all the way through. If the game was 0-0, I guarantee you, he would have scored that. He just like, you know, like he just it was he, he just, in the end, he didn't give his perfect shot. But he would score that if he needed to. It was just one of those nights where we kind of just kind of, you know, in the end, kind of let it slow down a bit. But it was great. It was a great effort. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, that play that Messi had where he chipped the player on the ground. That was my god. That was just that was just that was so high IQ, like that the IQ and like poise and just like to understand that that that's something that he could do in that moment. That is insane. It's just crazy. Like everyone else is moving in slow motion. And he is just thinking nine steps ahead. And so it's Suarez, by the way, you know, like, yeah, Suarez is finishing hasn't been perfect. And of course, he maybe is a step behind what he used to be. But I'll tell you what, you could see it unfolding, unfolding on the field. And I don't know how much was on the TV, but especially like in live in the field, him, Suarez, Messi, Busquets and Alba were all nine passes ahead. Like they were all they knew what their past was going to be four passes from now the four of them just like intricately doing that one touch passing up and down the field. Yeah, they're older, some steps behind this than the other. I don't care. They were playing like they they weren't they could have done it with their eyes closed. Honest to God, they could have done it with their eyes closed. It was unreal. And just as they keep getting into mid season form and the shape and the goal start going in. I'll tell you what, it's going to be something really to behold. No, yeah, 100%. Like we were saying that that could have definitely been a lot more than two zero. I just think that again, this is this being the first game you're going to have players that are shaky. You're going to have players that are still working on their accuracy. It's not the same thing as being, you know, the preseason games and playing your first game here at home to start off the season. I think that players will start to get better. They'll start to score a lot of these things. You know, Gretzel has some chances. I think that Gretzel played a really good game defensively. He also had some really good passes. And again, there's just he'll start to he'll start to finish these opportunities. But then his last pass is, you know, the final pass is his final third of the pitch. I saw a comment on it. It's not at its sharpest form. I agree. I think that he he's going to improve on it. But I still think what he's bringing to the team in terms of defense and just midfield, being in the right positions, being in the right places for transition of plays, making the pass to the third, you know, maybe not that final perfect pass, but he's he's added he added a lot of value to tonight's game. And Tata got that midfield three right. And also look what we're we're maybe not forgetting, but something to keep in mind is we have a game in three days in Los Angeles, the complete other side of the country, you know, West Coast trip. It's going to be a big hype game. There's going to be lots of stars there. It's going to be a big deal. It's Sunday night primetime. And then we have a game, you know, the following week. And then we have the CONCACAF Champions Cup. And so this is just the beginning. This is literally only one game. And you're not going to have anything perfect. But it was it was great. It was again, I and it's not our full squad. We still have more pieces to come. So, again, I am happy about it. Who do you think is your man of the match? That's what I want to know. My man of the match, my man. I mean, it's got to be Messi. Messi played a role in in and it's not just because he's messy, but he played a role in both goals. He has some crazy opportunities that he almost scored as well. So it's definitely going to be messy. Yeah, he played in a show. It's called Messi and Co. It's not just because but but he definitely he definitely did. I mean, amazing this game. But what was yours? What was yours? I want to touch on a comment here, but I want to I want to hear what was yours. I think it's going to be it's going to surprise people. But my man of the match, honestly, it's the Luis Suarez. And I know that's crazy. I really do. I know it's crazy. But let me tell you something right now. First of all, his pass was stunning for the second goal for Diego Gomez and absolutely a pass that it's not a pass every striker makes. You know, they would go for the shot or they wouldn't do it. It was a perfect pass. His hold up play all game was really, really good. And look, I get it. It doesn't seem obvious. I understand it. But I just I see I saw the effort that he put in the game, the forward runs he was making the hold up play he was making the defensive even plays he was making the playmaking he was doing. I'm telling you, every I was watching him the whole game more than I was watching almost anyone else, because I was really interested and excited to see him play, you know, real minutes in a real game. And it's my first time ever seeing him play. So I was really excited. I was looking at him. And I'm telling you, he had an incredibly positive impact that doesn't necessarily come up on the score sheet or on the final stats, but something that I was really impressed by. And if those you know, if he starts hitting those finishing chances, those one touches that we know he's capable of making, he's gonna it's gonna fly off the page. So yeah, that's my surprise. You can all roast me in the comments. It's definitely a surprise. Yeah, you definitely surprised me with that one. Um, maybe he played he played well. No, I mean, yeah, he played he played. Well, I'm not gonna speak ill of him. He definitely played well. Maybe he just plays he looks so much better in person, I guess maybe that when you're on TV, you're not watching him the whole time you're watching the ball, right? So when you don't, you're not only when it's in the final third, and you start and you see those long passes, and you should see it. That's when you see him on TV. But I'm telling you, I was watching him every minute in person. And every second he was putting in the winning effort and was like, positioning himself in winning ways doing winning runs. And just he I was, I was really impressed by it. I really was. Yeah, you know what surprised me about him? He played? I think what was it? 89 minutes, 89 minutes, and he would have played the whole game. I mean, yeah, he practically did. But like, he could have played and he kept he kept hustling. He kept going for the long balls, even though when they were far away, he kept going towards the defense when you know they were when the goalkeeper was just getting ready to kick it and taking his time. He was just he was just really running and I wanted I just I want to give him his flowers. I'm sure there will be other players who shined and etc. But I think he did. Like everything he signed up for more except he obviously he didn't get the goal but he could have and I just Yeah, I was impressed. We'll see it. I won't be saying that every game if he doesn't score. I really won't. But yeah, I really thought that I really thought that I'm fine. I was gonna come in earlier earlier. I think he was especially if we didn't get the second goal. Like I think he was starting to get ready to come in and like, I don't know when we scored the second goal. What was it like the 81st minute but I think like the 75th minute they started to see it was sketched though he started to have feel pain in his ankle so they knew they had to get rid of him. DeAndre yet Lynn started to feel a little strain in his hamstring. So I think he was he was initially going to come in on like the 70th minute but some of the injuries and other players I think changed that I saw comment Drake wasn't it was a man of the match agree with that to Drake made fantastic saves great with the ball. He obviously had that slip up in the first half but no he did a great job and like he was shaking in the preseason he totally showed out tonight made fantastic saves kept that clean sheet no doubt about it. Yeah what I thought was interesting when Tata started to make those changes and he took out Taylor and then he basically kind of moved to Gomez up a bit and you had Mota there and then you had David Ruiz there. Gomez is still you know he did so well in that position still like even though we took out Taylor like I thought for a second there it was like okay we're gonna be a bit more defensive but no like I mean Taylor went out Gomez stepped up a bit and then we had like like three four five more opportunities that was incredible in those last 15 minutes with that little change that that Tata made and I know that in the past we've kind of criticized Tata for some of his maybe lack of adjustments in the second half and yeah he I gotta you know you gotta give credit where credit is due and I think that Tata did a really good job not only the way he started the game but the way he finished and that was impressive to me. 100% you know what can I what I can say is what is the what is the sign of like a really good match and good coaching is that there could have been six or seven man of the matches that I could have told you honestly of the starting 11 you could have named six people I mean obviously I'm you know Suarez is a dark horse and I can understand if most people don't think that and if it didn't come up on TV it was just my first time seeing it and I saw it I really appreciated but it could have been Gomez it could have been it could have been Yedlin obviously Messi could have been Robert Taylor like there's it could have been Drake Callender like all of those players put in really great shifts and performances and that's the telltale sign that you have a great a great team. Yeah it was an all-around great team effort so I want to touch on this one comment that Anthony was just asking us I guess about a comment on this you know says Messi is mentoring Benjamin so so that obviously he can be his replacement when he retires we'll see if Benjamin is even still around when Messi retires because the way that young guy's going he might be playing somewhere else but which young striker in our system is Luis Suarez mentoring I've got to say it's got to be probably Campana I can't think or yeah I mean well that's what I think well I think it's you know I think it's actually all offensive it's all people who are in that final third I think I think that he was mentoring Gomez throughout the game I think he was giving tips to Robert Taylor I think it's really anyone who's going forward I'm sure him and Campana do a lot of one-on-one work they do a lot of speaking and with a Borjolin too you know I'm sure that that Campana is who he's obviously putting in the most effort too but like all game he was he was talking to everyone who was in that final third and and I think Diego Gomez I saw a lot of that effort and that just sort of intuition that reminded me of Suarez so I think it's almost like having coaches on the field yeah I think all four and all four phases they have these amazing mentors like because Busquets was doing the same thing like Busquets was like I saw Suarez and obviously you must have seen more because I could only see what was on camera but on the television Suarez and Busquets were noticeably coaching everybody around them and they're very vocal yeah very animated they get like they get sometimes even frustrated like hey you know what do you why are you standing there move this way or you should have passed it that way like that was that is just insane for to have basically two three four extra coaches on the field and especially for the young guys um that's totally and also Alba I mean Alba you know Alba and Noah Allen have a very good relationship we've seen on social media we've seen in training oh really Alba's done Alba's such a great teammate you can tell and a great mentor and same with Busquets very vocal Messi too I mean like you know obviously he doesn't scream and shout like other people and etc but like I of course I'm watching him all game two the little nods and notions and kind of directions he's giving with his hands and trying to put his teammates in good positions and giving them opportunities you see it you see it everywhere and you know what I can do to describe this game is is that it seems like a team that was full of veterans who are playing a cohesive effort and there was a lot of young players playing so I think that's a pretty good badge of honor that you can say that we're seeing what we wanted to wanted to be seeing for the last few games and especially towards the end of last season we were looking for more of that cohesion more of that full unit more of that veteran presence that could finish off games but yeah I mean it was it was great and look Messi could be man of the match every single game for his whole life and can be for the rest of the games basically yes he's always the man of the match I was just trying to give a different perspective and and you know every every you know ball Messi touched and every pass he made was the right idea and the right decision and 95% of them were perfect and the goals were all by his design like 100% 100% but it's a team effort and I'm just I was really really happy with what I saw from the overall team and I'm really excited to see what they continue to do because there's still a lot of you know there could be rotation of players that I would be happy to see starting as well and that's a really good sign to me you know with the formation with the team with the structure we have a lot of wiggle room and with a lot of games and a lot of matches upcoming and rotations needed we can sustain this performance yeah 100% um I see that comment about Barcelona system yes I was if I was watching I was like okay this is Barcelona from 2011 that's like what I was thinking when I was watching which I would be I would be I guess yeah maybe there might be some things um but I don't know how much of Barcelona that is and how much of European soccer that is because or at least the four of them knowing each other very well yeah yeah because the Barcelona like the tiki taka style that was kind of like Barcelona was very well known for Barcelona left that style after Pep Guardiola stepped away so it's not like it's not like Messi and Alban Busquets and Suarez in the last few few years or their last years in Barca they didn't really practice that style so I don't think it's that with what they do bring however which could be you might be identifying as a Barca style is a lot of the quick touches and that's something that yeah they learned yeah they learned that in the Spanish league Spanish football is very much like that so um I think that's probably what we're seeing a lot of is is more of a of a slow slow the game down look up soft touches play play up and not just you know like long balls and just try to you know long balls and see if the forwards can get it it's more of a build-up game it's it's prettier to watch and it's something I very much enjoy as well so I think that that's probably what we're what we're seeing here and and hopefully the young guys um do kind of um start to mimic that beautiful the second goal is really beautiful and you know you know what the style is called it's called the best players to ever play that position style is what is what the that's the Barcelona style it's oh these are the you know four of the best to ever play their roles on the pitch style of football so uh yeah yeah so um with uh so one of the things with Suarez is he he's really intelligent and he knows kind of like when to you know I think that he's now a lot more especially in this age a big part of like the build-up as well um he it's very yeah so I I think that that's kind of like different because I know that squad is before like in Liverpool or when he was in Barca it was that striker where you could put like a bond he'd make a crazy run and and that's kind of like not the the the squad is that we see now he's a guy that needs you to put the ball a bit more perfect for him put him in his spot get him in the right spots um so I think that that's good because you've got that player that just can be lethal that can put a pass as we saw in the second goal but then if you want something where you're going to have a player that's going to move around more be more involved in in in going down into defense making runs then you've got Campana so from a coach's perspective you've got two really good offensive uh kind of nines killers that you can have up there and kind of mess around with uh whatever schemes or game plans you want so I thought that was interesting and I I will say it does look to me like SWAT is or or maybe again it's just the beginning of the season but um he's slowed down maybe a little bit from what we saw in Brazil uh last season but that could also be again because it's maybe the first couple of games so I don't want to make that determination yet a hundred percent we'll we'll see as he um as the games progress I'll tell you what though and I love it what the cameras didn't catch he made so many runs that they didn't end up passing it to but he was just he was going a hundred percent the whole entire game I you know people are gonna really roast me for this I'm telling you next game I'm gonna record the whole entire game and just record Suarez so you all can see what he was doing I swear I'm not I'm not talking out of it I he really was but but I I agree with you it's it's slightly different but there was it was a lot of fluidity and a lot of right says you know what I was honestly thinking which is something that is not going to really happen very often but I was like hmm I wonder I was like god it would be really cool to see kind of a four four two and just to see a little bit of Suarez and Campana playing at the same time that would be fun I think you might see it here there especially like if we need to score goals if we're behind in a game or something like that like I could see it happening here yeah that's when it would happen for sure yeah yeah I I don't know I just I felt like you know in the end it was there was there was room for for some tinkering but I I really to kind of sum it all up because I I kind of uh gotta gotta get going in a second I uh I was really happy with the performance especially compared to what we've seen in the preseason a lot of talk a lot of ups and downs let me tell you what let me tell you something the stadium was rocking it was full everyone was excited to be there the team played great great effort out of everyone for the 90 minutes great game plan great finishing of goals great clean sheet everything we wanted to see that we've been looking for is starting to really kind of make its shape and I'm excited to see what keeps happening and you know we'll be hey we'll be we'll be back on Sunday streaming and I will have video on this time so you all can see my beautiful face and we can be able to go through things and more in depth and I'm just really excited for what the season has to offer yeah 100% I think that as a fan you've got to be happy with what you saw today especially being the first first game of the season you can expect teams to be rusty but you know you've got to be happy especially after what you saw if you watch the preseason I mean this team's unrecognizable compared to how we played against Al-Hilal or Al-Nasir like unrecognizable not not to mention again you've got guys like Redondo that's gonna come in to help in that midfield that is a great player you've got some you've got Freire that's gonna come in and help coming back yeah so yeah so this is an incomplete team that is playing great as soon as these reinforcements come in it's just going to give Tata so much more uh I think flexibility to game plan even more uh to be more specific with each team that he plays so it's exciting and I'm really I'm really really happy with what I'm with what I saw I'm very encouraged and I think it's only going to get better from here if this is a team that's rusty first game of the season and they played like this I'm taking it I'm taking it all day like this was 100 100 I agree and you know for everyone listening and watching we have a lot more content coming a lot more to talk about more episodes more live streams more everything so you know let us know what you want to hear what you want to see what you want us to talk about things that we haven't gotten to yet and I'm really excited we got a good season coming up Jan yep yep I am really really excited I am going to I don't know if you have to step away I was going to hang out maybe like two three more minutes um just to kind of answer some of these questions but um yeah I gotta I gotta you answer the questions thanks everybody for listening I'll be back next show and yeah let's vamos in there vamos in there thank you Ashley see ya see ya okay so uh Ashley yeah she was actually at the game um so she had a really cool perspective of everything that was happening there she said that it was amazing on TV on the television it was amazing I'm going to try to make it to the next one um and be in the press box that's going to be I believe let's see let's see the next game is going to be against the LA Galaxy in LA next Sunday February 25th at 8 30 and then the following that's going to be in Miami that'll be against Orlando City so that's a great game um against our our in-state rivals Saturday March 2nd at 4 30 so I'm going to try to make it uh to the press box on that one I'll try to get you guys some good coverage um from there so uh but the second half was good though right even that I said the team uh wasn't good though even that I said the team lost team in the second half yeah that's true the second half was at least at the beginning of the second half the beginning of the second half was very very shaky uh for sure that uh the Salt Lake started to pressure a lot more um and they were trying to make inter Miami make mistakes which they were successful at Gomez had a bad pass that almost resulted in a goal um Busquets had a couple bad passes as well that almost ended up in goal so yeah the second half was not good at least for like a good 25 to 30 minutes then Tata made some changes that that took out um he took out Robert Taylor he moved Gomez up a bit uh he took out um I'm trying to remember off the top of my head I know that Mota came in I know that that uh David Ruiz came in um so he made some changes in the midfield and after those changes the team kind of I think what they needed was fresh legs that team looked tired uh in that second half you can tell they just the some of the coverages were being blown against bad passes and that I recognize that so I just do want to give him uh props on that he brought in some fresh legs and and those last 15 minutes or so that's kind of when the second goal came um and then there were about like three or four more opportunities to score so definitely definitely a little iffy there but it ended up being a good second half towards the end of it so um let's see if that gap between RSL and Miami RSL punches and takes chances and then Miami makes the lethal turn uh yeah yeah exactly RSL RSL wasn't doing much in that first half um they had a couple chances here they had more chances in the second half but inter Miami um definitely was able to to fight back especially uh towards the end there I will say one thing though if we kind of want to look at the glass uh half full and be positive about this yeah there were there were moments where inter Miami was turning the ball over but that they were really good on getting back on defense and and getting their foot in front of shots um getting in front of passes so I will say that yeah like they were very shaky they they messed up but then they were so I think that that at least was something good um let's see uh Gianni actually I hope I didn't miss a 2024 MLS draft and if I did who do you guys want Miami draft I believe we already had the super draft if I'm not mistaken um and we had some good pickups uh Yannick Bright uh thank you um Northern Thai Garden guy uh so guy Yannick Bright Ryan Carmichael um he says guys we don't need midfield and forward yes I mean what we really needed was the midfield is stacked like we've got a stellar midfield um we've got the forwards covered one of the big areas for Miami and uh the big areas that need is definitely the defense so we were hoping that we'd get some more defensive players weirdly enough right now Noah is playing as a center back um I have I mean he's a last season when he when Tata played with a back line of uh with three CBs sometimes Noah Allen would play there um but I'm not a fan of that I don't think that's his position uh again he's a professional he does a good job of of doing what he's uh asked to do and playing that CB position but he's more of a left back um to play behind uh Jordi Alba if Jordi Alba gets subbed out so we definitely needed that center back position we got rid of Kamal Miller which was kind of weird but I think it was basically to probably free up a roster spy and some allocation money for some of the players that we were bringing in so that he was kind of sacrificed there um and now we've got Christoph and Aviles Aviles is a monster I love the way he plays Christoph has been uh was a little iffy at times last season he wasn't you know you couldn't depend on him too much but I say he had a pretty solid game today and then we've got Freire that's uh coming in so uh he'll probably be in my opinion the guy that slots in for um for Christoph so it'll probably be Freire and uh Toto Aviles in as their center backs um but yeah back line is what we need um so yeah I hope you guys enjoyed the game as much as I did I don't know if there's anything else you guys wanted to talk about before I head out I know that we are going to try to see if we can do another episode um because today's Wednesday right so we're going to try to see if we can do an episode Thursday or Friday but if not we'll definitely be on on Sunday uh to bring you some more stuff um another episode but yeah I'm really happy I hope you guys are happy with what happened today great game uh very promising Tata from a coach's perspective did great the players looked much more cohesive they looked like they knew each other they knew like they were the familiarity between each other was there um they felt like I finally felt like they were in the right positions in the preseason it felt like there were a lot of guys that were playing positions that they weren't used to or they they shouldn't have been in um and I think that they finally figured it out I'm excited uh to see what uh what's going to happen with Inter Miami as we move forward I think they have a bright future a lot of tournaments coming up for us um so it's good that we're it's good that we have a lot of depth in the midfield and the foot and the forwards we'll see what happens with the defense because we're going to need a lot of um there's going to be a lot of in and out between players for these different tournaments you're probably going to see one group of players play in the season another group in the in the MLS season you're going to see another group of players playing champions you're going to see another group of players playing league cups so it's going to be really important because these guys are going to be tired we want to make sure we avoid injury um and we want to make sure I mean basically if you have a player that you want to see play and maybe didn't get time today I think that this is going to be one of those seasons where everybody gets a chance to prove themselves again because of the amount of games that we're going to have so um okay so good result we'll get better as the season goes a hundred percent if this is the worst we can be today was amazing because we played so well so well so yeah it's only up from here and uh eric yeah agreed to a guy a hundred percent agree so yeah thank you guys uh for joining uh make sure to follow us at messy and co on our twitter or x so used to calling it twitter but on x so um we're also on instagram as messy and co we'll make sure to be post a lot we post a lot there a lot of our thoughts a lot of our analysis and a lot of videos and that sort of thing so make sure to follow us on there and uh hope to see you guys on the next one enjoy the rest of your night guys bye