ALERT: WE HAVE *NEVER* SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS
Lionel Messi and Inter Miami are off to the Concacaf Champions Cup semifinals.
Miami scored three consecutive goals on Wednesday — two of them by Messi — to overcome a 2-0 deficit and win its two-game, total-goals-wins series against fellow MLS club LAFC.
LAFC came into Wednesday’s contest with a slim, 1-0 aggregate lead thanks to their win last week in Southern California. Aaron Long doubled the Black & Gold’s advantage just nine minutes in on Wednesday — a strike that was worth more than a single goal.
Unlike the UEFA Champions League, which did away with the away goals tiebreaker a couple d seasons ago, Concacaf — the region that includes North and Central America and the Caribbean — still uses this controversial rule to decide the winner if teams are tied at the end of…
