September 14, 2022 – Major League Soccer (MLS) – Inter Miami CF News Release
Inter Miami CF celebrates win
(Inter Miami CF)
MIAMI – Inter Miami CF earned a crucial 2-1 win over the Columbus Crew on Tuesday night at DRV PNK Stadium in the club’s Kick Childhood Cancer Night presented by Baptist Health Cancer Care. Heineken Man of the Match Gonzalo Higuaín scored a brace to lead Inter Miami to the victory and extend the team’s unbeaten run playing at home in South Florida to five.
“Tonight, they got back to the standards that we asked them to return to, that we expect of them,” Neville said. “We had players for two and a half hours [during the weather delay] that were really focused. They wanted the game to go on tonight, and when they went out in the second half, they did everything they could to win that game of fútbol. It’s a big effort from both sides, both sets of players, and it was always going to be the team that had the mental toughness, the mental ability to keep going right until the very end.”
Inter Miami stepped onto the pitch making three changes to the starting XI from the match against Chicago. Drake Callender started in goal; DeAndre Yedlin, Aimé Mabika, Ryan Sailor, and Chris McVey lined up in defense; captain Gregore, Jean Mota and Alejandro Pozuelo played in the midfield; Ariel Lassiter and Robert Taylor flanked striker Higuaín in attack.
Goalkeeper Callender, defender Mabika and winger Lassiter returned to the starting XI for tonight’s fixture. Striker Leonardo Campana, meanwhile, returned to a matchday squad for the first time since the matchup against the San Jose Earthquakes on the road on August 3 after recovering from an injury.
Inter Miami opened the match looking lively in attack, constantly trying to create space in the final third and with Gregore registering the first shot in the first minute of play with a powerful long-range right footed strike that forced a save by Columbus goalkeeper Eloy Room. The team was rewarded for its efforts in the 25th minute; Taylor fed a perfect through ball into space on the right wing for Lassiter, who then passed the ball to the right for Higuaín as he was entering the box. Higuaín then finished with a right-footed shot to the far post to put the team up 1-0 on the scoreboard. It was Higuaín’s team-leading 11th goal of the 2022 regular season, while the assist was the fourth for Lassiter this campaign.
Columbus was then able to level the match before the half; in the 41st minute Steven…
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