Lionel Messi criticizes MLS referee again according to Inter Miami burning | Lionel Messi

In a rare interview after the game, Lionel Messi criticized the standard of the referee in MLS and asked his Inter Miami team to remain in shape after a 3-0 defeat against Intra-State-Rival Orlando City on Sunday after an astonishing drop.

The defeat was Inter Miamis fifth in the last seven games in all competitions, with just one win in this Timespan. In the results, Inter Miami was eliminated in the semi -finals by the Vancouver Whitecaps from the Concacaf Champions Cup and fell to sixth place in the Eastern Conference of the Major League Soccers.

After the game on Sunday, Messi stopped in the field to speak to the MLS season pass with Michele Giannone Michele Giannone and took the opportunity to try to motivate his team.

“We have a time with bad results, but we have to continue to work and think about what is going on,” said Messi. “We still have three or four games to end and end the month in the best possible way so that we can then concentrate on the World Cup.”

He continued: “If everyone wins, it is easy, but now that difficult times come, we have to be more than ever united, be a real team and go forward because we have it.”

Messi also aimed at referees in MLS and said that “specific mistakes” cost his team in certain moments. On Sunday, Messi believed that a pass from a defender in Orlando City, who was gathered by goalkeeper Pedro Galles, was to be classified as a deliberate backpass, only so that it was inappropriate. Orlando scored a long kick against striker Luis Muriel, who scored Orlando’s first goal of the game seconds later.

Messi named the incident as a “strange piece” and agreed to Apple TV that referee Guido Gonzales JR told him: “He didn’t know the rule and didn’t see it that way.”

“Her long pass came from there and the goal,” said Messi. “Sometimes there are mistakes in critical moments. It also happened in the last game. These are not excuses, but there are always problems with referees and I think MLS has to look at some of the office.”

In Inter Miami’s earlier game, a 3: 3 draw with San Jose, Messi received a yellow card for Dissens, which Messi confronted angrily when the players left the field after the last whistle of referee Joe Dickerson. The head coach of San Jose, Bruce Arena, stepped between the two when Dickerson threatened to spend a second yellow, which saved the Argentinian before suspending and allowed him to play against Orlando in the game on Sunday.

“He was obviously not happy and I wanted to make sure that he wouldn’t get a red card,” said Arena after this game. “I just tried to move him out of the way, because it would have been ridiculous that he would have got a red card at the end of the game.”

Inter Miami will return to the MLS game this weekend in Philadelphia and will open the World Cup against the Egyptian Club Al-Nahry in the Hard Rock Stadium in Miamis next month. Messi and Co will also compete in the group phase of the competition in Porto and Brazil’s Palmeira.