How Nashville SC finally took down Lionel Messi, Inter Miami
Nashville SC eliminated Inter Miami on away goals in the CONCACAF Champions Cup round of 16, a milestone victory over Lionel Messi's team.
Immediately after the final whistle of the second leg of Nashville SC's CONCACAF Champions Cup round of 16 series against Inter Miami, the official Nashville SC account on X posted a graphic with the final score — 1-1 — and underneath it, one word in large yellow-and-blue text. "WIN. " Fans unfamiliar with the Champions Cup format might be tempted to think of a moral victory akin to the 1968 Harvard-Yale football game, which produced the famous newspaper headline "Harvard Beats Yale 29-29.
" This wasn't that. Nashville and Miami did tie at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on March 18. But the 1-1 scoreline, which came after a 0-0 draw in the first leg at Geodis Park on March 11, meant Nashville eliminated Miami from the Champions Cup and advanced to the quarterfinals due to away goals, which was the first tiebreaker.
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Nashville finally beat Lionel Messi . "I'll never be 100% satisfied, but right now, I'm not going to think about that," coach B. J.