Superstar Lionel Messi dazzled in the Inter Miami vs. Nasville match to lead the home club to victory. With 100 goals more than Cristiano Ronaldo, he also became the fastest player in history to achieve the 830 goal milestone.
Messi outscored Ronaldo by 100 games to achieve the 830 goal milestone.
Following a spell of ιnjury-related absences from action, Messi has made a good comeback in recent games. In particular, La Pulga has netted four goals for Inter Miami across all competitions in the last four games.
Messi continued to leave his imprint in the most recent MLS 2024 round 9 match against Nasville, contributing a double goal and an assist for Sergio Busquets’ goal. With a 3-1 victory, Inter Miami maintained their commanding lead in the Eastern standings.
Messi’s career tally of goals reached 830 with this double. With just 1,056 matches, he became the fastest person to reach this milestone. Although it took 1,156 games, or 100 more matches, to reach the 830 goal milestone, fierce rival Cristiano Ronaldo did as well.
Messi has led Inter Miami in all competitions this season with nine goals and six assists. After just nine team official games, he had already contributed to fourteen goals.
Messi has contributed to goals in each of the first six games of the season, if MLS goals alone are taken into account. He is the first individual to accomplish this since Real Salt Lake’s Joao Plata in 2016.
Since moving to the United States, Messi has grown to love Nasville as a rival. La Pulga has thus far contributed to 7 goals (5 goals and 2 assists) in just 4 meetings with this squad.
Finalized the transfer of Messi to Inter Miami in 2024.
The first penalty goal scored by La Pulga at the club level in 865 days came from the spot when Messi scored his second goal. He last performed this, including at the level of the national team, 489 days ago during the 2022 World Cup final.
In contrast, Messi has only scored once from a penalty kιck since the start of 2023, compared to 27 times for Cristiano Ronaldo.