The PSG made the difference from the beginning, controlled the game without great efforts and eliminated Inter from Miami, leaving Messi out of the fight for the world title.
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The reunion with the Paris Saint-Germain resulted in a painful humiliation for Lionel Messi. His team, Inter Miami, was torn apart 4-0 this Sunday in Atlanta in the round of 16 of the Club World Cup.
Playing a different sport than that of the American squad in the first half, Luis Enrique and his European champions settled in the round of the eight best, in which they will face Flamengo or Bayern Munich on Saturday, which close the Sunday day in Miami (20h00 GMT).
The Parisians, great candidates for the title in the United States, sentenced the key in the first time with a double of the Portuguese steering wheel João Neves (6, 39), an autogol of the Argentine-Chilean defender Tomás Aviles (44) and a target of the Moroccan Achraf Hakimi (45+3).
Resigned, Cabizbajo or with the losing gaze on the horizon, the Argentine star lived with impotence the first game of his glorious career in which he struggled against an exequipo, in this case, the PSG, which he defended between 2021 and 2023.
Although the fans in the majestic Mercedes-Benz Stadium showed him reverence and affection, applauding him every time he entered into action, the 10 barely had sparks in a duel of abysmal differences and emotional tenor, since he reunited the fantastic four of Inter Miami with Luis Enrique, his extreme technician in Barcelona.
Parisian flatterer
The hopes of those who wanted Messi, 38, to take revenge of his unhappy passage in the French capital had to have vanished very soon, since it was evident early that the herons did not have weapons to stop the kings of Europe.
With a Galo Bradley Barcola superb, as unbalanced as cerebral, and the midfield of the completely plugged field, the PSG assured the series very fast when exploiting the weakness of the Rose Right wing.
The Portuguese Vitinha launched a foul from that area that found its compatriot João Neves, whose head first beat the Argentine goalkeeper Oscar Ustari.
I would do it again half an hour later, when pushing the ball at will after an assistance of the Spanish Fabián Ruiz in a play initiated in a beautiful self -tabilitation of Barklap on the front of the area.
By then, the marker looked favorable for the men of Javier Mascherano, another pupil of Luis Enrique in Barça, unable to squeeze the talent of his exclusion quartet: Messi, the Uruguayan Luis Suárez and the Spaniards Sergio Busquets and Jordi Alba.
But at the close of the first 45 minutes, the PSG managed to reflect in the account its absolute superiority, which did not even allow a diverted shot to the goal of the Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma.
With an poisoned center, Hakimi forced a goal against Avilés, who entered the start of the game for an injury to the American Noah Allen.
And then, Moroccan himself, sentenced the beating after receiving from Barcola inside 18 and taking advantage of a rebound after his first shot against the Ustari arch.
Messi, who before the beginning greeted himself with several players from his former club, including Hakimi and Marquinhos, left for the bewildered dressing room.
He returned a quarter hour later with another attitude. His companions too. Finally, Donnarumma's gloves premiered with a left -handed left -hander and then two heads from the Argentine Tadeo Allende and 10 himself.
The French, who from the start of the complementary part lowered the revolutions, controlled the advantage and gave themselves the luxury of giving their first minutes in the tournament to Ousmane Dembélé, already recovered from an injury to the left thigh.
Despite the massive support of the fans, who encouraged him with shouts of “Messi, Messi!”, The winner of eight gold balls said goodbye to the World Cup dream with a win.
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