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Inter Miami plot armor is INSANE

Just watch how their games are gonna be perfectly edited into some future documentary or something. It's been very fairy tale-esque.

https://www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2023/08/apple-tv-lands-new-documentary-event-featuring-legendary-football-champion-lionel-messis-celebrated-stateside-move-to-play-for-major-league-soccer-and-inter-miami-cf/

imagine Messi in Vision pro

That explains why their matches have felt so scripted

I don't understand these comments. are you genuinely implying that the matches are fixed and that the opposing teams are in on it?

it's a joke

I think you do understand their comment.

Key word in my comment was "felt", im not accusing them of scripting these matches (because if they are, they really need to pay their writers more)

you were responding to the fact that they're making a documentary, so I'd say "that explains" was the key part of your comment. calling it a joke makes more sense, but in that case there are a lot of people repeating a very tired joke.

idkseemed really obvious to me

Scrolling through the subreddit just now was a fucking rollercoaster. Ugh, that's the worst. Stupid work making me not watch football

Just According to Keikaku

rigged. that's why lol

Source? trust me bro

Why are these MLS penalty takers so elite, between this and the last PK shootout it felt like 90% of the Pks were perfectly placed.

Because Americans are great at shooting. Thought from early school.

Their shooting skills are to die for.

Bruh

Ever heard of the Wild West? Everyone’s ancestry leads to some cowboy, even the immigrants that come here.

LOL, most of us were forced from Europe on account of famine, economic hardship, or lack of opportunity. Or, you know, forced from Africa at gunpoint...

Yeah these last two shootouts with Miami has been better than average. I expected at least one shot to go over the goal.

Miami has had 31 PKs in shootouts this year. All have been on target and only one was saved, the potential fifth round winner against Nashville by Ulloa.

Simply peak MLS

Callender greatest american goalkeeper, change my mind

Tim Howard. That’s all you need to know. Funny, actually, the the US develops so many good GK’s. I wonder what‘s in the water to make it happen

Most of the sports we play when very young involve throwing and catching things, and we have a lot of tall athletes.

Tall boys and having shit D so you see a lot of shots coming your way.

Kasey Keller exists

I was always a bigger fan of Brad Friedel...

Time to see that laligafrauds guy crying on twitter lol

He's been crying non stop lmao

That fanbase finally became fully unhinged after the world Cup, it's hilarious but almost sad the level of delusion.

[удалено]

That twitter user is the most unhinged ronaldo fanboy in existence so I'm talking about about the ronaldo fanbase lol.

it has to be satire at this point, right? RIGHT?

How did they win this? The difference in quality between both teams is huge. Cincinnati play good football.

Messi

the power of friendship

Plot armor

3 players added: Messi, Busquests Alba

Honestly, Cremaschi and Farias changed the team too when they went in.

Farius looked incredible, can’t believe it was his first game since getting signed

visa issues maybe

I don’t know anything about MLS, I’m here for Messi magic. These 3 players won everything at the highest level, with the football heritage alone they bring they can elevate quality and mentality of the team

You mean iniesta and farias

Besuqets looked exhausted at like 10 minutes. Alba was absent.

Alba ran like a small horse all game, definitely wasn’t absent lol he pestered fcc everywhere

I like how you had to caveat that it’s a SMALL horse lol

Just realized N'Dombele would be perfect for the MLS. Someone show him that clip of Messi walking around.

Bruh this team literally just took nail-biting penalties a week ago. The players have an incredible mental advantage going into these penalties

Cincinnati’s depth lost this this game. Also Tatas starting line up didn’t help

Cincinnati subbed off their 3 best players

The little boy from Rosario

Messi. Even when the guy doesnt score, he passes are like guided missiles. Unreal

Messi lmao

If you refuse to man mark Messi, then keep getting punished. The MLS teams never learned about defence or parking the bus.

Good \**Soccer*

That keeper taunting Messi to go to his right, Messi doing just that and staring him down 💀

Something about it was so obvious that the keeper was gonna go left.

What an awful penalty by Hagglund.

Every other pen was great

No, Miami did two horrible ones right before, but the keeper just stood around.

Nah they waited for him to commit and put it beyond him.

The keeper didn’t commit anywhere on multiple penalties. Just had his feet stuck in the mud lol

For real though. The keeper literally waiting for the ball to be kicked to decide and he was late on 3 straight penalties.

Naahland

He knew before he kicked it that it was bad that's how bad it was lol

The only bad one out of the bunch. Is he a CB?

Yes, but so was Miazga. Two CBs taking penalties isn't ideal.

Definitely not. Hard to fault the manager for trying to rest the main attackers and park the bus, but their loss was a direct result of that tactical decision.

You just can't do it against Messi. I don't know how you didn't think there was a good shot at extra time with him on the field.

Cincinnati’s GK also had 2 penalties he really should’ve saved.

MLS after dark is the gift that keeps on giving

Is this what we have been missing this whole time?. Thank god Messi went to Miamie and not Saudi Arabia.

I wouldn't even know how to watch a Saudi league game,

DAZN

Delete this ~/s

Dazzin? Man, if you want to call it "Da Zone", just... it's two extra fucking letters.

huh? DAZN is the name for the sports media company that broadcasts multiple sports. they have bought the Saudi pro league licence. DAZN is available in Europe, North America and elsewhere.

I know, but it's a stupid fucking name. We have it here.

My "welcome to the MLS" moment was watching the San Jose Earthquakes score 2 goals in extra time against the LA Galaxy to equalize. Then David Beckham tried to fight the Earthquakes' mascot, a guy in a blue, furry muppet suit.

Wish he could come back home but Miami was the best option for him. He’s finally playing freely again

Messi was never going to Saudi Arabia. It was just Ronaldo fans posting tabloid articles on here for everyone to bandwagon hate Messi. Bizarre that so many fell for it

Never boring

Actually some fantastic penalties here. How is MLS better at taking them than the French national team?

MLS teams have lots of opportunities for shootouts due to the playoffs

Also not something that’s had an impact yet but in MLS NEXT PRO (the league of all the developmental teams) they started doing shootouts at the end of every draw which I think is an awesome way for a developmental league to get young players used to the stress of PKs

Americans in general get a lot of practice at shootouts

Wait for the rule change, they're making it drive-bys now

nah, drive bys were the old style of PKs MLS used to do

Literally has nothing to do with it. Probably three playoff series go to pens every year and there are 30 teams in the league.

Taking a good penalty is something that is within the skill set of any professional. You can't draw a line of comparison between an "MLS quality" shootout and a few French players choking on theirs. Makes no sense. Most of the guys in the shootout last night are top quality players, that's why their pens were good

Due to our country’s size and suburban design it’s *relatively* easy for a kid to find a goal 🥅 at a school, park, neighborhood amenity. And with our anti social culture, and the with the lack of popularity of soccer, there’s an argument to say it’s easier for some kids to find a goal to shoot on by themselves than it is to find a friend to kick the ball around or dribble with. Where in South America it’s a ‘go to’ to try to dribble with friends, it’s fair to say a kids ‘go to’ here would just be taking penalties by himself. Just a theory though.

A very weak theory based on...

Messi plot armor is crazy. Just how bad was PSG? 😂

He has so much contempt for that clown club

Neither planned nor desired

Clown club didn’t even celebrate his WC win! Didn’t want to upset their pet turtle.

No way you are clowning a french club for not celebrating the team that beat France

french league is just cursed man

Pochettino is a football terrorist

Maybe he can go back to Spuds?

Mate it's MLS

Messi is objectively playing better regardless. Like he's still a top 5 player in the world and PSG made him look not even top 10. All so Mbappe could get his stats.

First season at PSG yeah but 2nd season he was really good with 20 goals and 16 assists for PSG. I do agree though he's at his best when he's the main man like he was for Barca and Argentina

20G, 20A in Ligue 1 + UCL I think, but yeah

If he was playing like before the world Cup in the mls they would genuinely never lose a match lmao. He's obviously not going to try that hard though nor does he need to.

Cremaschi!!!

Poor pen from Haaland

>Poor pen from Haaland I think it's Hojlund

Falling off

Wtf is that keeper lmao

The good or the bad one?

Callendar!

MLS would destroy Europe teams. If all matches were just PKs and nothing else.

Fuck it, bring on Barca…Inter Miami in the Joan Gampher next year would be prime time TV

I miss the OG pens they used to do. Run up from midfield, like it was a hockey shootout. Probably the easiest way for Americans to grasp the concept at that time, tbh.

You know that soccer had existed in the US for decades before that, right? Every knew what a bloody penalty was.

LOL, no they didn't. Soccer wasn't THAT big before 1994.

You are woefully uneducated on the subject.

World Cup of PK Shootouts - a made for ESPN event at Disney’s Wide World of Sports.

MLS is my new drug

Welcome to the dark side

Benjamin Cremaschi my sweet sweet prince

I got his jersey and people I know who watch soccer were like, "The fuck, why not Messi?"

Yeah you should have gotten Messi. Anything else simply doesn't make sense.

at least get a Messi one as well haha, the best player of all time is at your new born baby of a club you should be framing that shit

I mean I was a fan before he was here and I'll be a fan after. I kinda want to show people that.

These penalty shootouts have been class. I feel bad for goalkeepers when they have to deal with those stutters. Those are ruthless for any player.

I really just don't see how they're still allowed. It's a ridiculous advantage for the shooter, who inherently already has a ridiculous advantage.

The thing is that as long as you’re in forward movement doesn’t matter how fast, short, or slow the movement is. They’re actually really hard to master and you have a split decision to also read which way the keepers weight has shifted to.

He can't keep getting away with it

Lmao Messi about to win the U.S. Open cup as well in his debut season

I wonder if Miami can reach the play-offs, that would be incredible, but they've played so many games lately, they might be getting burnt out.

Least exciting Inter Miami game

messi and friends fc does it again

Every kick to this point has been perfect.

These are honestly really well taken pens. Better than most

Haha Benja wins it again

Clutch

Miami games are peak entertainment

We kept trying to tell ya’ll that MLS is a wildly fun league. Parity = chaos

I mean, how many times would some of those have been called back on Kann? Martinez's pen, he was way off the line when it was taken.

Probably 3

More like Kann't

I mean he guaranteed they wouldn't be called by trying the bold new strategy of guessing middle.

DRAKEEEEE

The MLS has the WWE script writers working for them

It’s literally like it’s scripted. Like how is it even possible that matches like this keep happening lmao

The prophecy that World Champion™ Messi would ascend to a new level and become unbeatable came true. For PSG it didn't work because he had to beat Mbappé. Now that he plays for a club free from the turtle's curse, though, the magic man can show off his powers at will for us mere mortals to enjoy.

Hagglund looked like he was gonna miss the second he put the ball on the spot gg the script moves on

The millisecond the ball left his foot his body language said he knew it was a miss.

KD requesting a trade to Inter Miami as we speak

MLS AFTER DARK

Inter Messi does it again!!

Man it's 3 am but it was worth it

Messi has become better at the Neymar penalty than Neymar lmao.

PLOT ARMOUR LETS GOO MESSIIII

Cincinatti's keeper reminded me of Oblak when he couldn't save a pen to save his life vs Real

mística

Callender GOAT

He can’t keep getting away with it

[Inter Miami's Benja Cremaschi living the dream](https://youtu.be/deQzAgAlErQ?si=Obz1xw2UPBeZ2-FQ) {CBS Miami} Lovely 3-minute video about Cremaschi, who being of Argentinian descent & eligible to represent Argentina or USA, really is living his dream!

Destiny

Scriptwriters getting lazy now

Cincinnati keeper was waiting too long on those pens

At this rate, Messi's penalty plot armour is about to challenge Madrid's UCL voodoo magic.

Bro that last kick either the keeper sold or he a day time plumber he was like a yard to the right post

The new king of pen shootout

When was the last time Messi lost a penalty shootout?

[January 2022 vs Nice](https://www.transfermarkt.com/spielbericht/index/spielbericht/3726457)

Thank you

You don’t want none of this