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6 hours ago
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Lionel Messi Equals 7-Year-Old MLS Record With Nashville Masterclass
Lionel Messi Equals 7-Year-Old MLS Record With Nashville Masterclass originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Lionel Messi was once again involved with goals for Inter Miami in the MLS. Inter Miami defeated Nashville SC 2-1 at the Chase Stadium with two goals from the Argentine star. Messi scored a free-kick goal in the first half and then scored one of the easiest goals of his career. The Argentine already reached a milestone in the first half after his free-kick goal in the 17th minute. Messi is climbing the ranking of free-kick goals scored by any football player in history. This past week, Messi set a record in the MLS when he scored two goals against the New England Revolution on Wednesday. Just a few days later, he overtakes his record he set and makes more MLS history. Lionel Messi's MLS brace record With another brace in the MLS, Messi becomes the first player in MLS history to score a brace in five straight games. He became the first player in MLS history to score a brace in four consecutive games against the New England Revolution. Along with setting that record, Lionel Messi (11 goals in six games) equals former Atlanta United striker Josef Martínez for the most goals in a six-game span in MLS history. The record held by the Venezuelan striker was set in the summer of 2018. In his last five games, Messi has ten goals for Inter Miami and is now the joint top goalscorer of the MLS along with Nashville SC striker Sam Surridge. Messi has the second-most goal contributions in the MLS this season with 22, two below San Diego FC's Anders Dreyer. Messi doesn't show signs of slowing down despite being 38 years old and playing three MLS games in a week. What's Next for Lionel Messi and Inter Miami? After the 2-1 win over Nashville, Inter Miami remain fifth in the Eastern Conference after 19 games played, but are currently on 38 points. The Herons are now three points below Nashville, which is third with 41 points. Inter Miami is five points below first-place Philadelphia Union, with three games behind. Messi and Inter Miami are set to play on Wednesday against FC Cincinnati, who are second in the Eastern Conference. Next weekend, Messi and Inter Miami will travel to New Jersey to take on the NY Red Bulls. Inter Miami returns to Chase Stadium on July 26 to take on FC Cincinnati. On July 30, Inter Miami will play Atlas FC to kick off their 2025 Leagues Cup journey. Messi could potentially miss Inter Miami's match against FC Cincinnati on July 26, as he will be playing in the MLS All-Star game on July 23, which will be hosted in Austin, Texas, at the Q2 Stadium. Inter Miami schedule for July July 16: FC Cincinnati vs Inter Miami (MLS) July 19: NY Red Bulls vs Inter Miami (MLS) July 26: Inter Miami vs FC Cincinnati (MLS) July 30: Inter Miami vs Atlas F.C. (Leagues Cup) This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 13, 2025, where it first appeared.
BBC News
2 days ago
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- BBC News
Why Nypan is no inexperienced teenager
One the most impressive things about Sverre Nypan is the amount of minutes he has played at such a young age. The 18-year-old has already made more than 70 senior appearances for Rosenborg, after making his debut for their first team at 15. In that time, he scored 14 goals and provided 11 assists, meaning in the league he averaged a goal contributions every 178 to Transfermarkt, Nypan has been deployed in a number of positions but predominately as a central midfielder. He has also operated as a striker and as a wide more here
Yahoo
3 days ago
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💇♂️ Top scorer unleashed? LFC star bags 14-minute hat-trick
FC Liverpool won a behind-closed-doors friendly match against Stoke City today with a score of 5:0. One Reds star, in particular, seemed to have unlocked his top goal scorer mode again. In Florian Wirtz's first appearance in an LFC jersey, Darwin Núñez scored a hat-trick within 14 minutes. The Uruguayan struck in the sixth, twelfth, and fourteenth minutes. 📸 PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA Is this a good omen? The 26-year-old recently shaved off his long hair. The last time he opted for a more aerodynamic haircut in the summer of 2021, he scored 34 times for Benfica in the following season. This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here. 📸 OLI SCARFF - AFP or licensors
The Guardian
3 days ago
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- The Guardian
Euros continue to serve up goal fest as playing styles collide to dazzling effect
And frankly, have you not been entertained? If, of course, we are willing to stretch our definition of 'entertainment' to include some of the other popular sensations. Suspense. Terror. Existential despair. Cold sweating. Temporary breakdown of the nervous system. Loud screaming at inanimate items of electrical equipment. But as we approach the final week of this operatic Women's European Championship, this tournament has a fair claim to be one of the most thrilling in recent memory. And not just on the more intangible metrics: noise, penalty drama, side-eye, flying saves, players singing unprompted into pitch-side microphones, quality of fan walks. With three matches remaining, Euro 2025 has surpassed Euro 2022 in terms of goals, averaging a staggering half a goal more (3.57 against 3.06). This is on course to be the highest-scoring European Championship in history, excluding the limited four-team mini-competitions that were held before 1997. Only two tournaments ago, Euro 2017 averaged just 2.19 goals per game. A 63% rise in goals constitutes a seismic and really quite sudden development in the sport, one that raises a few supplementary questions. Have attacks got better? Have defences got worse? And, you know, what if some of these players actually learned to take a penalty? Perhaps the key finding here is that possession is no guarantee of control. If you exclude blowouts such as England 6 Wales 1 and include only matches between teams of roughly comparable strength (say, within 10 places of each other in the Fifa world rankings) then the team enjoying more possession has won just six games out of 17. The Netherlands had more of the ball against France and were demolished 5-2. Meanwhile, Norway's 2-1 win against Finland was secured with just 41% of possession. Winning games without possession generally requires one of a few to be true: a preponderance of set-piece goals, a reliance on fast direct attacks or a knack of being able to burgle the ball in the final third. None of which appears to be a disproportionate factor here. Set-piece goals are down compared with three years ago. The number of 'direct attacks', as defined by Opta, is at a similar level. Pressing, meanwhile, remains a potent weapon in the women's game, perhaps even more so than in the men's game, where elite teams are now much more adept at playing through pressure, perhaps even baiting the press to create space. But at this tournament the number of successful tackles in the final third is actually down 23%. There were 708 high turnovers at Euro 2022 and just 495 so far at Euro 2025. Mis-controls per game are down from 38.1 to 35.2, which suggests an overall rise in technical quality. So where, exactly, are all these extra goals coming from? Dig a little deeper into the data, however, and a more revealing picture emerges. The number of high turnovers may have dropped sharply, but they have become vastly more efficient in generating goals (one in 33, compared with one in 54). The number of errors leading to a shot has more than doubled. All of which indicates that teams are becoming far more surgical, sophisticated and ruthless in their attacking tactics, targeting them in areas of the pitch, phases of the game and perhaps even particular opponents where they will have maximum value. Underpinning all this is perhaps the biggest shift in the last three years: the quality of finishing. The 87 non-penalty goals at Euro 2022 were scored from 98.4 expected goals (xG); the 92 non-penalty goals at Euro 2025 have been scored from an xG of just 84.4. Simply put, teams are getting better at converting from virtually all situations, and arguably better at identifying the situations best suited to their style. Direct one-on-one dribbling has been a particular speciality of France and Sweden, the only teams to generate more than 10% of their shots through this method. Italy have created more shots from dead balls than anyone else. And England remain the undisputed queens of penalty-area chaos, generating almost three shots per game from following up on shots that have just been taken. Sign up to Moving the Goalposts No topic is too small or too big for us to cover as we deliver a twice-weekly roundup of the wonderful world of women's football after newsletter promotion The broader picture, however, is one with which anyone who has watched the development of women's football over the last few years will be familiar: a sharp rise in attacking quality and tactical sophistication that has not – so far – been matched by a similar rise in defensive skillsets. What, if anything, does any of this tell us about this week's semi-finalists? Perhaps the key lesson is that – heroic German rearguards aside – keeping it tight at the back is less important than being able to generate shots. England, Italy and Germany are only the sixth, seventh and eighth best defences in this tournament. Italy have the fifth lowest average possession, but compensate with their lightning speed of attack. Crossing remains an important tactic, with the eight quarter-finalists all in the tournament top 10 on this measure. In many ways, though, Spain are the unicorn team at this tournament, perhaps even the unicorn team in women's football, the only side reliably able to pass their way out of trouble anywhere on the pitch. Spain aside, the teams who have gone far in this tournament are those who have been prepared to abandon the ground game and go long or direct when necessary. And so increasingly this tournament is boiling down to a battle between two models: the passing game pioneered by Spain, and the more pragmatic style practised by everyone else. There may be many ways to entertain. But ultimately, there will only be one way to win.
Arab News
3 days ago
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- Arab News
Lionel Messi's 6th brace in 7 games seals Inter Miami's win over Red Bulls
Lionel Messi had two goals and two assists to lead Inter Miami to a bounce- back 5-1 victory over the host New York Red Bulls on Saturday night in Harrison, N.J. For the latest updates, follow us @ArabNewsSport
