CHICAGO — Lionel Messi wasn’t in Chicago with Inter Miami on Wednesday evening for a recreation towards the Fire, lacking his fifth match within the final six with the MLS membership.

The 36-year-old Argentine star had been listed as questionable on Inter Miami’s damage report due to a scar tissue ailment that has nagged him since shortly after World Cup qualifying. He labored out independently of the workforce Tuesday.

The Fire - who received the sport 4-1 - bought a team-record 61,000 tickets to the match at Soldier Field. After Messi’s presence turned unlikely, introduced potential season-ticket holders may take a $250 credit score towards subsequent season, with single-game spectators eligible for a $50 credit score in the event that they determined to not attend.

“Many people were here to see Messi, and who doesn’t want to see him,” Chicago coach Frank Klopas mentioned. “But they saw a good performance from our team tonight.”

Messi has 11 targets in 12 matches with Inter Miami. It is 8-0-4 when he performs; seven of these matches had been on the workforce’s run to successful its first trophy by claiming the Leagues Cup championship and one other was within the U.S. Open Cup semifinal. Inter Miami is 1-2-2 in its 5 matches with out Messi since he joined the membership.

“Barcelona missed him, and the Argentine team missed him,” Miami coach Gerardo Martino mentioned about Messi. “Of course we’re going to miss the best player in the world.”

Martino gave no timetable for Messi’s return.

Xherdan Shaqiri and Maren Haile-Selassie every scored twice for the Fire. Josef Martinez scored on a penalty kick for Miami.

Miami has 33 factors with three video games left, 5 factors behind Montreal for the final playoff berth with 4 different groups to additionally overcome.

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