by Inter Miami is the last remaining unbeaten team in the Major League Soccer after getting the Columbus crew on Saturday with a 1-0 victory in Cleveland.
At Huntington Bank Field, the home of the Cleveland Browns of the NFL, turned out to visit Lionel Messi and friends and while the Argentine had a quiet game, Miami went with the points.
Benjamin Cremaschi’s 30th minute Diving Header set the competition, but Columbus, who shared the same possession as the Browns, had many chances of getting at least one point out of the game.
While there were many Messi fans in the crowd, thousands of crew fans had brought the two-hour trip over the I-71 to the game and they were away from their seats in the 25th minute when Daniel Gazdag came close to Oscar Ustari, but also over the bar.
Ustari had to be vigilant again in order to give a maximum arfest effort after a nice transition from Wilfried Nancy’s team, but hit Miami against the game run.
Luis Suarez swung the ball from deep to the right flank, where the full -back Marcelo Weigandt drove for the first time that Cremaschi hit with a perfect diving head.
There were occasional signs of life of Messi, shortly after the goal he handed over to three defenders before he fired a 25-yard effort.
After the break everything was columbus. After the Colombian Cucho Hernandez, who was sold to the Spanish Club Real Betis in February, had lost its top striker, the crew could not make the best of its chances.
Diego Rossi screwed a shot from a great central position in the 60th minute, and the art was good to make room for an opening, but his shot was hardly worrying Ustari.
In added time, Andres Herrera delivered a dangerous low ball into the penalty area, but Hungarian Gazdag could not deliver the finish and wrongly decided on the outside of his right foot if the inside of his left had certainly led to a gate.
– ‘Big result’ –
“This is a big result for the team, we came all the way here against those of the best teams in the league, they played very well and we look forward to the three points,” said Cremaschi.
“We obviously wanted to play a little better, have the ball, be safer on the ball, but we know that they are a hard team that likes to have the ball,” he added.
The Brazilian Joao Peglow achieved a large improvisation with a solo gate in the 2-1 win of DC United at the New York Red Bulls and strikers in the 35th minute and doubled the advantage with a spectacular kick against half of the half.
Although Eric Choupo Moting retired for Red Bulls in the 57th minute, DC only recorded her second win of the season.
Brandon Vazquez ’81. Minute Finish achieved a 1-0 win against the Champions Los Angeles Galaxy, which remains rooted in the western conference without victory and with only three points from nine games.
The Czech international Ondrej Lingr scored with the diving head of the former Slavia Prague middle field player in injury time in his debut for Houston Dynamo, in which he achieved a 2-2 draw at his team at home.
The Brazilian Evander scored twice for Cincinnati in her 3-2 victory at the Chicago fire, while the Philadelphia Union impressed with a 3-0 home win against Atlanta United, although visitors sent Serbian Jovan Lukic in the 56th minute.
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