{"id":24372,"date":"2025-06-24T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=24372"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:20:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:20:56","slug":"messi-set-for-psg-reunion-as-inter-miami-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=24372","title":{"rendered":"Messi set for PSG reunion as Inter Miami progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Lionel Messi will face former club Paris St-Germain at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifa.com\/en\/tournaments\/mens\/club-world-cup\/usa-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s1\">FIFA Club World Cup<\/span><\/a> as Inter Miami drew 2-2 with Palmeiras to reach the knockout stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">A point was sufficient for both sides to progress and Tadeo Allende and Luis Suarez had Inter cruising at 2-0 in front of 60,914 fans at Hard Rock Stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">However the Brazilian club scored two goals in the final 10 minutes \u2013 from Paulinho and Mauricio \u2013 to ensure they went through as winners of Group A on goal difference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Inter finished second to set up the meeting with PSG, where Argentina forward Messi played from 2021 to 2023. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Elsewhere in Group A, Egyptian side Al Ahly conceded an 89th-minute equaliser to draw 4-4 with Porto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Wessam Ali\u2019s hat-trick for Al Ahly was cancelled out by goals from Rodrigo Mora, William and Samu Aghehowa before Mohamed Romdhane put Al Ahly 4-3 up in the 64th minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">However, Brazilian winger Pepe\u2019s dramatic late equaliser at Metlife Stadium ensured both sides exited the group phase with two points apiece.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Messi will face former club Paris St-Germain at the FIFA Club World Cup as Inter Miami drew 2-2 with Palmeiras to reach the knockout stages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24375,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24372\/revisions\/24375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}