Miami: Inter Miami fans can push a sigh of relief while Lionel Messi is likely to come back when the team faces the Los Angeles galaxy during a football clash at Major League which will launch a key section for Florida Club, said coach Javier Mascherano on Friday.
After sitting with a minor muscle injury, the Argentine star is back in training and seems to settle on the ground. The supporters will keep their fingers crossed, hoping that it gives the team a boost that is very necessary in this important confrontation.
After the Galaxy match on Saturday, Miami played on Wednesday at the Mexican club Tigres Uanl in the quarterfinals of the League Cup.
“Leo is doing well,” Mascherano told journalists on Friday before training. “He has been training with the team since Wednesday. Unless something strange happens during today’s training session, we think he will be available for the match of tomorrow.”
Eight times the winner of Golden Ball Messi, underwent a “minor muscle injury”, apparently a tension in the hamstrings, in the 11th minute of the match of the August 2 League Cup of Inter against Necaxa.
The 38-year-old Argentine superstar returns as the Herons competed to rebound after a humiliating defeat of 4-1 in Orlando City last weekend.
Inter slipped to the sixth row of the East MLS conference with 42 points – nine behind the leaders Philadelphia but with three games in hand.
Messi, the most useful player in title MLS, leads the Golden start -up race with 18 goals and nine assists in 18 games.
Miami will be favored at home against the Galaxy, who are the title champions of the MLS Cup but which take place for the last place with the worst League record.
The galaxy, however, qualified for the quarterfinals of the leagues, and Mascherano warned that Miami could not afford to take them lightly.
“For me, they are a team in which the MLS classification does not reflect their quality, in particular the quality of their players,” said Mascherano.
“The reality is that maybe they haven’t started the season well because of injuries and various situations. But they have improved a lot in recent months.”
