Messi scores 4 as Inter Miami net 7 in record win

BREAKING: Lionel Messi scores four goals as Inter Miami thrash CF Montreal 7-1, a club-record win that snaps their winless run.

Four goals from Messi, seven for Inter Miami, and a club record in the books.

Montreal got flattened 7-1 on Saturday, and the footage tells you everything. A deflected free kick on forty minutes, a solo run in the fifty second, then a chip over the keeper so gentle it barely disturbed the net. And deep into stoppage time, one last free kick bent into the top corner, because apparently three wasn't enough. He threw in an assist for Luis Suárez while he was at it.

Here's the part that gets me. Miami did this with no head coach on the touchline. Their interim boss was suspended, and the new permanent guy is still waiting on his work permit. Nobody in charge, seven goals anyway.

It's the eighth time in Messi's career he's scored four in a game, and the first since Barcelona in 2020. He's thirty nine years old and leading MLS with eighteen goals in nineteen matches. The winless run is dead, and the greatest of all time just reminded everyone why the title stuck.

This is Liu Yang, reporting for HIT.