{"id":179347,"date":"2026-08-23T03:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/179347\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:39:20","slug":"messi-scores-but-cant-complete-comeback-as-toronto-fc-beats-inter-miami-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/179347\/","title":{"rendered":"Messi scores but can&#8217;t complete comeback as Toronto FC beats Inter Miami 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Sargent and Derrick Etienne Jr. scored second-half goals three minutes apart and Toronto FC held on for a 2-1 victory over Inter Miami on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Neither team found the net until the rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2091331049892553099?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sargent scored<\/a> in the 59th minute to give Toronto the lead. D\u00e1niel Sall\u00f3i and Etienne had assists on Sargent&#8217;s fourth goal. Sall\u00f3i&#8217;s helper was his seventh and Etienne collected his third.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2091331567528317386?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Etienne scored<\/a> for the third this season \u2014 unassisted three minutes later for a two-goal lead that helped Toronto win in Miami for the first time<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ap26235028143886.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Toronto FC Inter Miami Soccer \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Inter Miami forward Leo Messi (10) reacts after a play during the first half of an MLS soccer game against Toronto FC on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo\/David Santiago)<\/p>\n<p>                David Santiago<\/p>\n<p>Lionel <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2091336363270443040?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Messi cut it<\/a> to 2-1 in the 82nd minute with his 14th goal this season and his 64th in 71 career appearances. Rodrigo De Paul and Maximiliano Falc\u00f3n had assists.<\/p>\n<p>Luka Gavran saved two shots for Toronto (5-7-9).<\/p>\n<p>Dayne St. Clair finished without a save for Inter Miami (11-4-6), which falls to 0-2-2 in August. <\/p>\n<p>Toronto is 2-0-2 in its last four matches and 2-1-4 since July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Inter Miami posted a 4-2 victory in Toronto back in May and leads the all-time series 9-3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto: Hosts New York City FC on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Miami: Hosts CF Montreal on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>See AP&#8217;s full soccer coverage here               <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Sargent and Derrick Etienne Jr. scored second-half goals three minutes apart and Toronto FC held on for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3544,318,205,49,48],"class_list":["post-179347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-lionel-messi","tag-major-league-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}