{"id":179365,"date":"2026-08-23T04:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/179365\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T04:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T04:02:09","slug":"lionel-messi-scores-but-toronto-beats-inter-miami-2-1-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/179365\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Messi scores but Toronto beats Inter Miami 2-1 \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/tag\/inter-miami\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"473912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Inter Miami<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Neither team found the net until the rookie Sargent scored 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>Etienne scored 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>Lionel Messi cut it 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>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLarry Berg is the incoming MLS commissioner who helped build LAFC into one of the league&#8217;s flagship clubs and now takes over at a pivotal moment for soccer in North America.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Toronto: Hosts New York City FC on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Miami: Hosts CF Montreal on Saturday.<\/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":179366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3545,359,205,48],"class_list":["post-179365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-inter-miami","tag-mls","tag-soccer","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179365","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=179365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}