Impact of Inter Miami's Early Exit from MLS Explained

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00:00I'm excited to talk about this segment, obviously not as exciting to many fans

00:07around MLS, especially with the elimination of Inter Miami. I think that

00:11hurt. I think a lot of us wanted to see Messi, Suarez and Alba challenging

00:16perhaps the LA teams. You know, Brad Gussan was a beast. Brad Gussan was

00:21unstoppable in that series, but in your opinion, what happened there? Why did

00:25Miami end up with that early exit? I think for me, it really boiled down to

00:30defensive mismatch, right? Like Miami in the third game, they came out, they score

00:35a goal, immediately you felt that the team had relaxed themselves. The marking

00:41wasn't as tight, the running wasn't as fast and you know, Atlanta took

00:47opportunity and they made it really, really well. They noticed that Miami was

00:52playing with a really high line and they exploited that with a very fast

00:55player that was able to define two amazing breakthrough goals and I feel

01:02like Miami didn't have a response. Another thing that it was very clear to

01:06me is that most players had like this instinctual movement to offload the ball

01:11to Messi, where at some times I saw a couple maybe choices that you know were

01:17better options for the moment, but you could tell that everybody started

01:20panicking as you saw the minutes go by. They were trying to just offload the

01:25ball to Messi that he, you know, show what he's capable of, but at the same

01:28time in MLS that's not enough. You cannot just use one player to beat a whole team

01:33like Atlanta.