Lionel Messi’s Al Hilal-Inter Miami: what time is the friendly match, how to see it live and probable lineups

Inter Miami faces its first international tour since its creation. With the figure of Lionel Messi like a magnet, the Florida team begins its Asian tour this Monday with a friendly against Al Hilal, the powerful Saudi Arabian team where Neymar plays, now with a knee injury. The match at the Kingdom Arena stadium will take place starting from 3pm (Argentine time) and to watch it live you need to subscribe to the MLS Season Pass on Apple TV.

Before this match, coach Gerardo Martino had already played two tests in which Inter had failed to convert against the team from El Salvador (0-0 draw) and FC Dallas (1-0 defeat), other North American League (MLS) franchise. .

Although Messi and the Uruguayan Luis Suárez have left traces of the lethal bond of their experience at Barcelona, ​​’Tata’ Martino’s attacking plans have taken a turn in recent days with the serious injuries of the promising Argentine playmaker Facundo Farías, who he will miss the entire match. season, and the talented midfielder Benjamin Cremaschi, who will be out of the field for two-three months.

Neymar will miss the duel against his former Barcelona teammates in Spain, due to the serious injury to his left knee sustained in October in a qualifying match against the ‘Seleçao’.

Even without the Brazilian, Al-Hilal leads the Saudi championship with seven points ahead of Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al-Nassr after 19 games played.

Portuguese coach Jorge Jesus has other old acquaintances from European football at his disposal such as his compatriot Ruben Neves, the Serbians Sergej Milinkovic-Savic and Aleksandar Mitrovic and the Brazilians Renan Lodi and Malcom.

The Kingdom Arena stadium in the Saudi capital will be the same stadium where three days later Inter will face Al-Nassr in a duel for which Cristiano Ronaldo should be ready.

The Portuguese will try to fully recover from his calf injury to experience a possible final duel against Messi, with whom he was the protagonist of one of the greatest rivalries in the history of football when he was a star of Real Madrid.

Once the Saudi tour is finished, Inter will travel to Hong Kong to face a local team on 4 February and to Japan to play three days later against Vissel Kobe.

On February 15th Messi will experience an exciting end to the preseason in a friendly match in Miami against Newell’s Old Boys from Rosario.