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Crushing loss for Inter Miami ends Lionel Messi’s absurd three-year record

Inter Miami lost their first home match of the Major League Soccer season to Atlanta United, snapping a three-year winning streak, despite the best efforts of Lionel Messi.

Messi, 36, scored his eleventh goal of the season just after the hour mark, cutting the lead in half. Just minutes after Georgia international Saba Lobzhanidze put the visitors up with a brace, the unfortunate goal came as a consolation.

Miami let a third goal in when Jamal Thiare, a Senegalese striking partner of Lobzhanidze, restored Atlanta’s two-goal lead, instead of rallying behind Messi’s magical moment. Despite losing, the squad is still in first place in the Eastern Conference, but Messi’s three-year winning streak came to an abrupt halt.He hasn’t scored in a match that his club lost since May 16, 2021. Celta Vigo were the last team to accomplish that, and they shocked everyone at Camp Nou with a 2-1 victory.

With the help of Sergio Busquets, Messi scored a rare header to put the home team ahead. Interestingly, three years later, the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner found the bottom corner after receiving a fizzed pass from the former Spain International.

This notorious match was Messi’s final at the Camp Nou, and Jordi Alba was also a player in it. Although the left back made every effort to stop Santi Mina from scoring twice, Barcelona’s La Liga title dreams were mathematically dashed.After the defeat, an irate Alba said: “We hope that won’t be his [Messi’s] last game here at Camp Nou, but it’s a decision he needs to make.” Even after all these time, he has yet to make another appearance at the stadium.

Instead of clinging to the dream of returning to the Catalan city a year ago, he moved to Miami after joining Paris Saint-Germain that summer. Although Messi has spent his whole time in Paris and his first year in Miami playing for his side, they have never lost a game when he has scored.

At the 2022 World Cup, Messi scored Argentina’s first goal from the penalty spot, but Saudi Arabia staged an incredible comeback, which was the sole outlier in that run.