Lionel Messi walked off the field a winner in his MLS playoff debut. Luis Suarez and Jordi Alba had the goals and Inter Miami beat Atlanta United 2-1 in Game 1 of a best-of-three Major League Soccer playoff series on Friday night. Messi had an assist on Alba's go-ahead goal in the 60th minute. The teams play Game 2 in Atlanta on Nov. 2.
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It was not the easiest of openers for the Supporters Shield winners, the No. 1 overall seed in the MLS Cup playoffs — a team that set a league record with 74 points in the regular season, 34 points ahead of wild-card Atlanta in the standings. Inter Miami’s first-ever home playoff game and Messi’s MLS playoff debut was sold out — Messi games almost always are, everywhere in the world — and MLS even had a camera isolated on him throughout the match,. There were plans to also show the match live on a massive screen in New York’s Times Square; that ended up getting called off Apple will schedule a viewing of another match there.
and beat Drake Callender from close range in the 39th minute, and Atlanta — which won at Chase Stadium in May — was all square going into the second half.
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