AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Sam Surridge, Tai Baribo and Brian White scored goals and Major League Soccer defeated Liga MX of Mexico 3-1 in the MLS All-Star Game on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Lionel Messi and his Inter Miami teammate, Jordi Alba, both face possible league suspensions for their team\u2019s next match against Cincinnati on Saturday for\u00a0missing the All-Star game.<\/p>\n
Liga MX\u2019s James Rodr\u00edguez also chose not to play in the game played in front of more than 20,000 fans at Q2 Stadium.<\/p>\n
Liga MX\u2019s lone goal came from Gilberto Mora, a 16-year-old representing the Tijuana Xolos. San Diego FC\u2019s trio of Hirving \u201cChucky\u201d Lozano, Anders Dreyer and Jeppe Tverskov did not figure in the scoring.<\/p>\n
MLS has defeated Liga MX three times in four tries. Last year Liga MX won 4-1 in Columbus, Ohio. The MLS All-Stars won in 2022 and beat Liga MX on penalty kicks after a 1-1 draw a year prior.<\/p>\n
Messi has yet to appear in an MLS All-Star Game. He missed the game last year with an injury. Messi is tied with Nashville\u2019s Surridge for the MLS lead in goals with 18.<\/p>\n
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The Gonzales family watching the game. San Diego FC fans watch the MLS All-Star Game exhibition against the best players from Liga MX at the team\u2019s official watch party at The Harp Irish Pub and Restaurant in Ocean Beach on 07.23.25, in San Diego, California. (Alejandro Tamayo \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n
Surridge scored another goal on Wednesday, from the middle of the box, heading in to the lower right corner a ball directed by LAFC\u2019s Denis Bouanga in the 28th minute.<\/p>\n
The opportunity developed after Bouanga had a point-blank attempt stopped by Liga MX goalkeeper Luis Malagon (Club America). Bouanga hustled to retrieve the long rebound and sent it to Surridge.<\/p>\n
Before the goal, both teams had attempts rejected with diving stops by Malag\u00f3n and Austin FC\u2019s Brad Stuver in the 13th and 18th minutes.<\/p>\n
MLS went ahead 2-0 in the 51st minute when Diego Rossi (Columbus) passed ahead to Baribo (Philadelphia), whose right-footed shot from the center of the box made it to the lower left corner of the goal.<\/p>\n
Liga MX closed the gap to 2-1 just 13 minutes later when Mora converted a pass from Elias Montiel (Pachuca) from the middle of the box. Mora, 16, was the youngest player competing in Wednesday\u2019s game.<\/p>\n
Liga MX\u2019s bid to tie the match was snubbed when a shot by Diber Cambindo (Necaxa) was stopped by Yohei Takaoka (Vancouver) in the 75th minute.<\/p>\n
White (Vancouver) finished the scoring in the 80th minute.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
MLS and Liga MX continue their rivalry with the Leagues Cup that begins on July 29 and concludes Aug. 31. The competition features a new format, with all 18 clubs from Liga MX and the top 18 from MLS<\/p>\n
Originally Published: July 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Sam Surridge, Tai Baribo and Brian White scored goals and Major League Soccer defeated Liga…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,1370,3549,15520,7264,221,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-87739","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-fc","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-soccer","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114906354497251938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}