Messi Unbelievable Goal 🔥 Inter Miami vs LA Galaxy 1-1 Highlights & Goals - 2024

It is rocking on opening night in Carson, California, just outside of Los Angeles. Sold out. Building's been full for hours before this game. The final match of opening weekend in Major League Soccer in 2024. The LA Galaxy and Inter Miami underway from Dignity Health Sports Park. Which puts the onus on the midfields of both teams of turning them over. Oh boy. Foul given. Ball in the back of the net from Diego Fagundes, but Gabriele Ciampi calls it. Little messy now. On the ball really for the first time. Wide to Gressel. Gomez left it. Might end up with Suarez. Knocked back by Delgado. McCarthy tried to keep it in play. He was unable to. And it will be a corner kick for Inter Miami. Well in moments before this. Josef Paintsil and Jordi Alba. Here is Josef Paintsil. Getting around Jordi Alba. Sending it in off of Jovovich. Unable to turn it on frame. And out for a goal kick. Tunga, Fagundes, and Ricky Pooch. It's 14 caps with Ghana. Josef Paintsil. As Messi holds off Ricky Pooch. At one point Ricky Pooch was too low. Gomez. Messi. Still Lionel Messi. Still Messi. Got space. Ricky Pooch to Paintsil. Paintsil is in as he pulls it off. He is. It's a penalty for LA. On Ricky Pooch. Pooch is sick. It's holding your ground. Now the hip's open. This is fantastic goalkeeping from Drake Callender. Now the corner for the Galaxy. Fagundes serves it in. Caceres. Jovovich was there. It was blocked. Major League Soccer Phil Neville. Chris Henderson. Anyone with Inter-Miami said he's just got to pull. Here come Miami. Usquets to Messi. Messi over to Jordi Alba. Has Taylor in the middle. Instead leaves for Suarez. Fagundes. Julio Naude into the middle over there. Cleared by Jordi Alba. Back to Messi. Jordi Alba. Robert Taylor. Taylor turns. Cuts it back. This makes it to Fagundes. Yedlin defending. Fagundes tried to leave it for Jovovich. Serrillo. Blocked by Gomez. Jovovich. Comes Ricky Pooch. Driving up the pitch. Away from his former teammate Sergio Usquets. And over to Dejan Jovovich. Jovovich is blocked. Christos. Paintsil off and running. Jovovich in the middle. Paintsil gets a lob. Usquets. It's a foul. It's a free kick for LA. It's a yellow card to Sergio Usquets. Need to do that. Paintsil and Fagundes over it. It will be Fagundes serving. It is Yoshida who's header is wide. Ricky Pooch. Paintsil. He's in. Paintsil. Saved by Callender. There's a real balance to this LA Galaxy. Trying to backheel into Paintsil. He's not able to get it back. Here's Messi. It's away from Serrillo, but Fagundes will serve. Knocked down by Yoshida. Cleared away. Lionel Messi, but the reaction is immediate. Ricky Pooch breaks away. Oh boy. Badly miss hits it. Audacious from Ricky Pooch. How about him blown right by Ser... Cleared away. Messi got there before Serrillo, but it ends up with Ricky Pooch! Spectacular! Again, fantastic work. Immediate reaction. That is deflected in, and it's Messi! Takes another deflection. McCarthy had to react and push it away. Up by Paintsil. Can the Galaxy hit him on the counter? There's a lot of room behind. Ricky Pooch for Paintsil. Paintsil running at Kristoff. Paintsil keeping it himself and sending it into the crowd. Fabulous direct for Suarez. McCarthy came in hands. Ricky Pooch, when he had to settle. Messi. Still Lionel Messi on his right. It's blocked, and McCarthy as far as Busquets. Busquets diagonal. Yedlin settling. It was almost Suarez into Gomez. Tried to get it to Yedlin. Clearance went right to Suarez. Who the player is. Ricky Pooch misses a penalty tonight, but he still has been the... Still Ricky Pooch. Maybe too much. Paintsil's got a lot of room. Miami backs off. Paintsil trying to curl it. It's well wide. 30 seconds of the minimum minute of stoppage time. Oh, that works out. Suarez! McCarthy pushes it away. It was truly offside. Three elbow worries. Yards off. Fenced it in the first 45, but all DePaul to play for in the second half. Underway between the LA Galaxy and Inter Miami. For the first time we've seen Jordi Alba do that. This is promising to begin. It's left for Gomez. It's right at McCarthy. Paintsil. Jovovich back to Paintsil. Paintsil didn't get enough on it. With a great strike. Big save from McCarthy. Messi to Jordi Alba. Back to Suarez. Alba. Messi. Holds off Ricky Pooch. Yamane pokes it away. Jordi Alba. Suarez can't get there. It's right to McCarthy. Jovovich. Floated across. Calendar will catch. Delgado and Facundes arriving as well. Paintsil getting around Krivstov. Facundes will serve. Facundes. Good ball in. Oh and a save again from Calendar. Casares has hurt. Calendar got in the way. They're on the doorstep. Casares is still down. Play continues. Aude goes down. That's as hard as they can. Right in front of Suarez. Facundes will kind of float it in. It was blue season for Inter Miami. Maybe it'll happen here with Messi on the ball. Messi from distance. McCarthy holds on. Suarez. Yoshida there. It's Jordi Alba. It's Lionel Messi on his right foot. Big block by Aude. Corner coming for Miami. Different Inter Miami in this second half and so much of fact. He was the player of the year in Brazil last year as Ricky Pooch comes forward. Gomez defends this. Jovovich on this back post. It is Facundes to serve. He's looking for Jovovich. Jovovich got there behind Gressel. The Galaxy want a penalty. They charge towards Gabrielli chopping. He says hold on. A little bit of a risk. The check is complete though. No clear and obvious error not to award a penalty. Messi cutting inside. Over to Jordi Alba. First time Jordi Alba was going. Jovovich turning. This is the right. Messi into the wall. It falls and it's saved. The offside flag comes up. Gomez through for Messi. Almost makes it to him. Caceres wants to be in these spots. Running at David Ruiz. He goes down. He says to his hands to the face. Running at Aviles. Paint still coming inside to Ricky Pooch. Ricky Pooch saved by Callender. Delgado. Yeah the only difference is though. Now here we go. Communication has been a little delayed in the previous games you and I was face. Peck running at Kristoff. Peck onto his left. Callender holding on. Three points. The Galaxy allowed eight more goals than any other team last season in MLS. 67. Almost exactly two per game. Has a yellow card. Busquets. Now Jordi Alba gets it. Drives it across for Messi. And why many times in the last 15 years have you seen this? Messi. Jordi Alba. Back to Messi. Jordi Alba. Cuts it across. Messi. That sense of inevitability.