Seattle Sounders host the ultimate of the 2025 Leagues Cup. They face a tricky problem of their quest for the title, as Inter Miami arrive led by Lionel Messi. The Argentine ahead, now totally recovered bodily, is the primary draw of the match at Lumen Subject.
The Herons reached the event’s decisive match regardless of being with out Messi for a considerable a part of the marketing campaign. He performed within the opening match towards Atlas, the place he supplied two assists in a 2–1 win, after which appeared briefly towards Necaxa earlier than a muscle harm compelled him off the sector.
With out the Argentine star, Inter Miami drew that second match and picked up an additional level on penalties, then secured qualification by beating Pumas of their third recreation. Within the quarterfinals, they managed to defeat Tigres even with out their greatest participant.
Messi lastly returned this previous Wednesday and was instrumental in main his staff to a semifinal win over Orlando Metropolis. He scored two late targets that helped the Herons come from behind to achieve the Leagues Cup last for the second time in membership historical past.
Inter Miami stars Jordi Alba, Lionel Messi, and Rodrigo De Paul.
What number of targets does Messi must turn into the highest scorer of the Leagues Cup?
With two targets in simply over two matches performed, Messi’s common within the Leagues Cup is spectacular. Nonetheless, that complete continues to be not sufficient to position him among the many event’s high scorers.
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At the moment sitting atop the scoring chart is one other Argentine star: Angel Correa. The World Cup winner in Qatar 2022 has scored 5 targets in 4 matches with Tigres of Mexico and stays in first place for now. Simply behind him, with 4 targets every, are LA Galaxy’s Joseph Paintsil, Orlando Metropolis’s Martin Ojeda, and Toluca’s Paulinho.
Which means, to complete as the highest scorer of the 2025 Leagues Cup, Lionel Messi would wish to attain at the very least three targets within the last towards Seattle Sounders. That might convey him stage with Angel Correa and they’d share the award. If Leo scores greater than three, he would win it outright.
Seattle gamers who may additionally end as Leagues Cup high scorer
In Sunday’s last, Lionel Messi isn’t the one one with a shot at catching—or surpassing—Angel Correa’s mark. Two Seattle Sounders gamers even have a sensible probability to assert the Leagues Cup scoring title. Osaze De Rosario has scored 4 targets within the event (together with the one he netted within the first half of the ultimate towards Inter Miami), whereas Pedro De La Vega has scored three.
Messi has already been Leagues Cup high scorer earlier than
The Leagues Cup is clearly a event that fits Lionel Messi nicely. When he joined Inter Miami in the summertime of 2023, his official debut with the pink jersey got here on this very competitors, towards Cruz Azul, the place he scored a shocking last-minute free kick.
That 12 months, Leo led the Herons by means of consecutive wins in each spherical of the Leagues Cup, all the best way to the penalty shootout victory over Nashville SC within the last. With that win, Inter Miami secured their first official trophy, whereas Messi claimed the event’s high scorer award, ending with a powerful 10 targets in 8 matches.
