“Messi and Suarez are old, the signals are sinister”: a Los Angeles newspaper is very harsh towards the former Barsa of Inter Miami

The unforgettable left lane company that Lionel Messi AND Jordi Alba forged years ago in Barcelona, ​​​​it has now been transferred to the United States. The Argentine and the Spaniard join forces to unite their movements and, after a double block, La Pulga makes it 1-1. InterMiami in view of Los Angeles Galaxy at the end of the match, in his second match in MLS (Major League Soccer) in the United States.

But it seems that the intervention of the former Culés to save his team from what could have been their first defeat of the season was not enough to avoid criticism.

Newspaper sports columnist Los Angeles TimesDylan Hernández made a bloody analysis of last Sunday’s match, in which he confronted the main exponents of the Florida team: “At a certain point, Inter Miami will have to deal with the reality discovered on Sunday by the night . Messi is old. Luis Suárez is old. Sergio Busquets is old. The only member of the Barcelona Quartet who didn’t appear to be playing on an empty tank was Alba, the 34-year-old left-back who ran up and down the touchline as if he were 10 years his senior.

The series of matches that the Aironi will have to face between MLS and international competitions in a very short time is a theme that the journalist underlines: “When you play in a league with a grueling calendar and a demanding travel itinerary, Inter Miami seems destined for disaster”.

But Dylan Hernández set his sights on the best player of all time and was very critical of his footballing level: “He can still hit a ball with surprising accuracy, but it doesn’t recover as quickly as before. He lost half a step, which explains how Galaxy defensive midfielder Edwin Cerrillo managed to keep him in check for much of the match. And when Galaxy’s Brazilian Gabriel Pec, valued at $10 million, entered the game in the 70th minute (he came on for Diego Fagúndez), Messi was no longer the most interesting player on the pitch. TO

Furthermore, he added: “Messi was not the same player who visited Los Angeles FC’s BMO stadium in September. “He wasn’t even the same player as four days earlier, when Inter Miami had defeated Real Salt Lake in the first match of the season.”

The columnist also pointed out how the most valuable club in MLS was overtaken by a completely revamped team: “Major League Soccer’s most expensive team was outpaced by the revamped Galaxy for much of the night, and there’s no reason to believe that Inter Miami will never have games like this again. How many more times will they be able to count on Messi to invoke magic at the end of the game to save them?

Dylan Hernandez is not satisfied with his analysis, and continues to harshly criticize the players made in Barcelona: “Messi and the striker Suárez, 37 years old, were practically spectators when the Galaxy had the ball, which forced Inter Miami to defend with eight players on the pitch. One of them was Busquets, 35 years old, who looked like a statue in the middle of the pitch.”

“The sequence was proof of Messi’s continued ability to produce spectacular moments. Whether Messi can put together a championship season, even in MLS, is an entirely different question. Two games into Inter Miami’s season, the signs are disturbing,” he concluded.