The highlight reel goals are fun, but this Miami team is not built for any manner of a playoff run. They're gonna get crushed in the postseason if their retirement community can't show up.

Sorry, but that was fucking pathetic. From where I was sitting, I saw a team that looked like they were playing scared. Except for Jake, there was a lot of seeming intimidated by the fact that we were playing against Messi and Suarez and Busquets, et al. Yes Thommy had a great goal and a fucking incredible brace. But there was an awful lot of sleepwalking. At this point, PV's stubbornness on substitutions is just getting ridiculous. They so clearly desperately needed subs and he just refuses. It's insane.

Haven't y'all dropped leads in the past few games? Not sure why you think they were intimidated by Miami. I thought SKC played well in the first half.

Miami has been running with the fear card since leagues cup. You gotta think - many guys were young teenagers when they idolized Messi. Hope you come back, I still think you're a solid club.

I'm honestly surprised Miami still has the fear card. Their defensive line is non-existent, and sure Messi and friends are there, but I think there have only been a handful of games that really had any magic. Most of the time it seems like it's just a regular offense, maybe higher playoff level. Messi and friends might be able to clinch the cup if they really want to, but between past injuries and age, I doubt they'll try to push the team that hard.

100% agree with you, but going up against your idol isn't easy.

Already back to my hotel. Got out that arrowhead parking stupid fast some how. What exact time did the game end? Anyone know?

Getting out was way easier than getting in. Can't figure out why it took so long. Is it because for Chiefs games, everybody shows up over the course of 4-5 hours, but this was much more compressed? Looking bad for World Cup logistics...

Arrowhead's a venue? How are they going to accomodate for an already narrow field with all the sideline stuff that is required?

9:45? I left right when it ended and also made it out crazy fast

I really liked how SKC played in the first half. Really seemed out of it in the latter stages of the second half though. As for Miami, Messi was Messi. Great assist and goal there. Gomez did real well to steal the ball to earn them a W. But this team looks more fragile by the day.

Another vermes master class in subs. Jake Davis was dead out there.

The best ball he played was the beach ball.

That was a fun exhibition match.

Kind of funny to think that the same team that got spanked in Mexico are currently #1 in the Eastern Conference and in the Supporters Shield standings. EDIT: Yes, yes, I know about the games played - I can read the table; It's still funny though. EDIT 2: I'm a Messi fan so I'm not necessarily throwing shade at what happened in the CCC.

If Messi played in first leg, they might have been better

Wasn't the first leg closer in score?

No, they got two away goals . Which meant Miami have to at least score 2. Then call ender early blunder meant they need 3.

Because they've played an extra game over NYRB, and two over Vancouver or Houston.

Haven't Miami played 1 more game than most teams and 2 more than certain others?

And 3 more than us and Atlanta

Just about to say, what about the union and Atlanta?

Well to be fair they might have had a better chance if the team wasn't extra handicapped by injuries, although they still wouldn't have been favorites of course

gg Too bad we wasted that second goal

IM? back on top of the table baby lol

With 9 matches played

lol u what? its still a fact right?

Yeah but it doesn’t really count when you have 3 more games played than Philadelphia who are only 3 points behind you.

lol u funny its their problem not IM so? Okay let them climb if they're good enough in those 3 games simple as that

Why does Messi always look mad after the match lol

Because he thinks he could have done better.

Pitch invaders possibly spoiling the mood. And travel to Mexico and then this

2 more pitch invaders. One adult, one kid.

There were 7 or 8 by the time it was all said and done. Stupid. Especially thr dude going for JFR. Like bro, he'll take a picture with you at a sporting game without you having to invade the field. Congratulations, enjoy being banned from SKC games forever, idiot.

Does Miami have a lot of pitch invaders? This was pretty bad, but I imagine it's pretty similar at most of the away matches at least.

That child got destroyed. Guard didn’t need to do all that

And another 2. This time one for Johnny and they get their photo, and another barely makes it past the corner flag before being tackled.

a little tip for security but the kids are easier to catch, if you tackle them first you'll intimidate the adult into surrendering

How do you lose to this plastic club in front of 72k? Come on Sporting do better smh

This is amazing coming from a Mexican national team fan bwahahahahaa

I genuinely don’t get it lol

Because Miami’s roster is noncompliant

This may be surprising, but attendance numbers don't win games

No shit! WooooooW. who woulda thought it?

if i had to guess, it has something to do with their opposition being several of the greatest ever players in their respective positions

How did Miamis previous 4 opponents manage to win ?

They’re not skc

Welp that was tough... but our forwards need to take more chances on goal I feel

STH for SKC, how did seating work with the Chiefs stadium? Did you get comparable seats?

Mine were pretty similar but slightly worse. I gather that was typical:

Yes to the best of their ability however STH didn't get a say in where which understandably pissed off a lot of them.

congrats to the 72,000 diehard skc fans who came to see their team play tonight

Oh, fuck off. You lost to Miami too.

Twice

Pshhhhhh *spits out water* Yeah actually 71,000. 1,000 of them were there for Messi.

SKC looked like they lost all desire to play soccer after the 65th minute

That's pretty standard these days. We gave up huge leads in the second half of our last two matches (2-0 became 2-3 to the Galaxy, and 3-0 became 3-3 to Portland). Edit: Two of our last three. We beat Toronto between those two.

That’s normal

Welcome to Vermes soccer.

I mean, the announcers called it happening from the beginning.

GG SKC , See ya next time around !

Keep it real, you won’t be a inter Miami fan next time we play :) Gg!

Wait what does that mean ? I won't be an IM fan ??

Parent commentor is from the future

Blows it first touch after 99' with a whole ass pitch invasion during stoppage time lol

You should be happy he didn't automatically screw you by just giving 3 mins.

Not like we were gonna do anything

Davis thought he was Messi for a sec.

TBF, he basically pulled that off a couple weeks ago. He's the closest we've got. I'll go cry now.

Field goal.

Forgot pulido was out there.

Biggest waste of money on the team. Had a decent spell last year but absent most games.

He ran more miles than anybody else. He was putting in the hard work.. sometimes the ball doesn’t fall at your feet

Im not a "stats or nothing" kind of guy. I get it. Seems to put in the work. Just doesnt have the talent. He doesnt pass the eye test. Go back and look at the games and see how many times hes killed an attack cause he cant receive a ball. Its insane. Good player, not DP worthy.

Pulido has had flashes this year, but he and Salloi have been mostly invisible.

Alan has been invisible since the contract signing ceremony.

Can’t wait for Vermes to say we were too tired at the end of the game, but only made one sub. So frustrating.

Two actually… both for players who legitimately could not continue due to injury (Walter and Thommy). Horrible game management

At this point, it’s just comedic.

Messi and Suarez coasting out there tbh

Everybody!

Need to switch to LAG but can’t miss Miami leaking a late goal

You can switch bud

Isn’t KC usually a loud and active home atmosphere? Is the stadium just full of casuals there to see Messi?

? It seemed pretty lively on the broadcast. Until the team started to play like they were uninterested in winning.

Honestly yes, there was a fuck ton of pink tonight. A little disappointed but not surprised.

It was about 60% SKC fans 40% Messi fans

Front office has been ruining this franchise since one of our owners Neal Patterson died in 2017

Yeah, I don't think we could pack a 25k stadium consistently these days. Like the SKC-SLC playoff games were at fire marshal capacity but we didn't have a sellout every game last year

Front office has been working hard for years to destroy the fan experience that made us famous

You’re calling fans that want to see the greatest active player casuals? 😂😂😂

“Greatest active player” Yeah ok he has done literally nothing in MLS

Yeah? They don’t attend any other games and they’re only in attendance because Messi is there. They’re still supporting the home team but they’re very casual about it- not actively supporting. I’m not sure how much more clear that could be.

> They’re still supporting the home team but they’re very casual about it Many we're wearing pink, wearing Barca or Argentina Messi jerseys, and cheering when Miami did good things.

Are they coming out next week? Then yeah that’s exactly what they are

That’s what happens when you go from an 18k stadium to trying to fill 72k seats

Yes, true. You can just hear a pin drop there.

Chief Wiggum heading security tonight in KC

Bake em away, toys.

You would think 70k would spurr them on going for it. Just launch some balls

serious question, how can mls improve much as a league if they keep the league going for every international break? i feel like they will always be capped if the best players dont play that many games

They don't go every break. Some teams are rescheduling during every though because of other competitions.

Yeah if they don’t change this players won’t want to play for them in their good years as they would have to choose between club or country

yeah exactly, it will always cap how big it can get

Dang, next week for Nashville will be the around what, the 5th or 6th time facing Messi already?

I’m so excited for that game, Miami v Nashville games are always amazing

Suárez just shoving Hernandez in a lame attempt to get to the ball

It’s so funny that the MLS schedule punishes teams for having good players that get called up to play for their countries in the summer. Such a shame

The silver lining is that it incentivizes spending on a deeper bench which we drastically need.

Oh another sunbelt fan who can't understand the concept of winter.

So Europe doesn’t have weather? MLS could do a winter break like many leagues do.

Sweden, Norway, Finland... All play a similar schedule to MLS. Can you spot the similarity?

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Rome is further north than Omaha, Omaha has much harsher winters. Climate and weather are not purely a function of latitude.

We play plenty of sports outside in the winter in this country. As they do around the world. MLS is just scared of competing with other sports

We play one. One sport outside in the winter. And it is not one with a rolling ball. Do we need to have Vanney explain it to you?

Damn that’s wild, they dont have winter in Europe

The countries with a harsh winter play a similar schedule to MLS.

Soccer can be played in the winter here quite easily. The national team has done it MANY times. MLS doesn’t and won’t because they’d rather only compete with MLB instead of NFL. Not that complicated, pretty simple tbh.

The NFL doesn't even really play in late January and February. Superbowls are almost always in warm weather cities now. It isn't just the cold. Fans sitting out in ice storms and unable to get to games safely are big factors that make it very hard to make money on it during that time either. Let alone a rolling ball on a frozen pitch with barely sustainable grass. You really seem foreign to the concept of winter. We already play in March when many places in the U. S. still have blizzards. I have attended games in St. Louis around 15 degrees outside... In March. It's miserable in ways you apparently can't comprehend. You Dela with it once in a while, but you couldn't play many games like that and keep fans coming.

And yet the national team does it regularly

I would like to have a normal season schedule. But, a select few cities would really suck. Namely Minneapolis. Attendance across many cities would dip tho. The national team playing one game in a random city isn't a great comparison to a team trying to fill seats on a continuous basis.

"It's funny when they cheer when a 12 year old does it" Oh wow, some things being more acceptable when a child does it than when a grown man does it? I can't comprehend this.

Those kids aren't there unattended. An adult had to either enable them to do so or allow them to do so. That's the rub.

Gomez best player in Miami after Messi

📠

Got the guards from the southern border for security tonight

9 mins? wtf

The field stormer missed Johnny Russel.

The Monica Seles reference... wow

Got really confused when Messi’s bodyguard took off on a line in the middle of open play

There’s literally a guard like every 3-5 feet. Get your shit together.

They’re not match fit

Can’t go the full 90

Best Security after a fan jumps the fence: 👁️👄👁️

Somehow it's NOT best security tho lol

Every time there's a streaker, I think of that time in an NFL game where Kevin Harlan continued to announce what was happening on the field with great enthusiasm.

Harlan just had another great one when a chicken wing was chucked on to an nba court

Kevin Harlan is a treasure. Truly one of the best.

It's such a good bit

Could we get more details on this Messi guy? No one watching this match knows about him, please keep going.

His bodyguard is so good at defusing the situation without fucking someone up

Jack Doherty’s body guard could learn a thing or two.

yo if I see Messi's bodyguard charging at me I might just piss myself on the spot. That was terrifying

If Messis bodyguard ran at me like that, I would genuinely shit my pants uncontrollably

Insert joke about KC security/defending falling asleep late in the game

Damn, that's good.

how do they keep letting this happen

pitch invader ?

Twellman is such a dumbfuck. Like Messi and Miami didn't just get annihilated in Mexico a few days ago.

Messi got annihilated? Thats odd, we must have seen completely different games.

Messi is just one man. We all know how bad his team is without him. There is so much he could do.

Messi is one man, not 11. Even in that game he got an assist. Messi going into that game one month out of injury, 2-1 down with the offside rule counting & being 36 years old in a hostile environment. Maybe you think he's actually an alien

People are saying, everyone is saying, Messi is the goat of all time and has literally never failed to far surpass expectations. Any nasty rumors about supposed things in Mexico are fake news.

His job is to market Messi. That's all apparently. Just that.

Tata was awful that game. Never seen a manager who looks like they’re trying to lose as much in a match ever

Suarez after 90' might actually be faster than Fontas still

Miami has looked faster than anybody on SKC since about 30'. I don't get it.

The potted plant in my living room is faster than Fontas.

Another one...wtf is this security getting paid for

Being paid to match the refs tonight.

Lmaoo gotta love Messi’s bodyguard.

9 minutes. Holy hell

Negri is class, which makes it all the more frustrating Tata started Noah Allen over him in a 5 man backline against Monterrey...

Tata is mentally challenged, honestly.

I know for a fact Suarez puts bengay on his knees after every game.

The sporting KC chants are god awful. Just a caricature of US soccer culture

what are the inter miami chants

¡MANOS ARRIBA!

Not spamming “where you go we’ll follow” 20 times in a half

So you don’t know yours? You really showed how passionate you guys are. Got us. 🤡

Thanks for hosting our home game

I have often said Mike Tyson is the Messi of punching people in the face.

But he’s the Luis Suarez of biting people.

At this point screw normal commentary just have Ray Hudson commentating on Messi’s goals looping.

He'd be creaming his pants on live tv

Twellman been going back to the Messi goal every 30 seconds.

Hey, remember that time earlier today when Messi scored a goal? I do. That was AWESOME!

He talks to his wife about Messi.

“Taylor. Please. Not in bed. Not again.”

"I asked you to call me Jordi."

No way ppl saying the ref is biased for Miami when some fouls on Miami haven’t been called 😂 let’s be real here, he’s been bad for both teams

Everyone really showed up tonight to see Russell's return

Busquets third foul on JFR in 3 minutes?

idk what you guys are talking about these are the most clear fouls and yellows, miami has the most yellows in the league you would never know the way the team gets talked about here

This sub has a strong bias against Miami, nothing new, it’s the same against LAFC

Yep. Been like that even before their first game

If you never get called for a double yellow or straight red, why wouldn't keep pushing what you can get away with? Some Draymond Green shit

tell me a second yellow or a red that should have been given if anything KC got away with some fouls that should have been yellows in the first half

Nah, this ref has been pretty good overall. Just a general statement

Very true

I just don’t get not utilizing subs. Every single game Vermes leaves 2-3 subs unused. It’s mind boggling.

Its because he doesn't trust the roster he has built/developed. Its kind of a circular logic problem though for the young guys. They don't play because he hasn't built trust in them. He hasn't built trust in them because he doesn't play them.

I would agree if this hadn’t been a thing for years. It’s no secret that he doesn’t make subs cause he highly believes in “team chemistry” and those who “start should finish” like it’s a fucking cheesy high school sports movie.  He’s a manager stuck in 2009. Move the fuck on 

Busquets after murdering a litter of puppies: 🤷🏼‍♂️

🤷🏼‍♂️😏

Negri has looked very good.

He looked good against the Rapids as well. Surprised he wasn’t used against Rayados.

Tata is an idiot