Messi has losing start into MLS season, Müller wins
Lionel Messi’s Major League Soccer champions Inter Miami suffered defeat in their season opener while runners-up Vancouver Whitecaps with Thomas Müller had a winning start.
Miami lost 3-0 at Los Angeles FC in front of the second-largest crowd in MLS history, with 75,673 fans present at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
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David Martínez gave the hosts the lead in the 38th minute, set up by former Tottenham Hotspur great Son Heung-min. Denis Bouanga doubled the advantage in the 73rd before substitute Nathan Ordaz sealed the result deep into stoppage time.
Handicapped by a hamstring problem, Argentina’s World Cup winner Messi was unable to seriously test former France international goalkeeper Hugo Lloris in the LAFC goal.
In Vancouver, German World Cup winner Thomas Müller hit the post early on before new signing Ariel Jackson netted the 1-0 winner against Real Salt Lake in the 57th minute.