Inter Miami vs PSG recap: Messi and co. shouldn't be embarrassed after 4-0 loss

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Recapping the 4-0 loss Inter Miami suffered at the hands of the EUFA Champions League winners. Why MLS fans shouldn't have expected an MLS team to hang with PSG.

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00:00By the way, I wasn't as outraged as a lot of people were

00:04about the result of Inter-Miami losing 4-0.

00:09And I didn't think it deserved any think pieces by MLS fans

00:14or soccer fans in general about, you know, the state of the MLS.

00:19I mean, the game ended how it was supposed to end.

00:23The best team in the world outclassed an MLS team.

00:27Yeah, pretty much what everybody should have been expecting.

00:32Understood.

00:33But I don't consider it to be a typical MLS team because they have Leo Messi.

00:38So I thought, you know, in a situation of, you know, LeBron added to whatever,

00:45a EuroLeague team is not even a good example anymore.

00:49But I just expected something other than being completely and utterly destroyed

00:56by PSG.

00:58But I showed you a text that I had to Whittingham during the game

01:01because I had never watched PSG before.

01:03I'm like, are they playing with 18 guys out there?

01:06Like, I couldn't believe Inter-Miami couldn't breathe.

01:11When Inter-Miami touched the ball, they couldn't breathe.

01:16And it looked like, I mean, it really looked like professionals versus peewee

01:22for some of the game out there.

01:25Like, it was remarkable how fast PSG was versus what Inter-Miami was doing out there.

01:33I saw y'all's text thread and I was thinking about kind of what Solano was telling us.

01:40Like, these are the world's best soccer players ever that have been doing this

01:44for hundreds of years in their country.

01:46And we threw together a little league over here thinking we're going to catch up

01:49with them in eight years.

01:50It seemed unfathomable.

01:53Well, it's interesting because do you say, hey, the fact that Inter-Miami actually made it

01:58out of the first group is that kind of significant where you say, look, they're not as bad as

02:05people say, or, and by the way, they didn't have to end up playing PSG.

02:11It's because they gave up those rotten two goals in the last 20 minutes.

02:16Who was that against?

02:17Palmeiras.

02:18Palmeiras.

02:19They were up 2-0, 20 minutes left.

02:22But, you know, had they won that game instead of Drew, they wouldn't have played PSG

02:28and it wouldn't have been as embarrassing, I think, for MLS as a whole, what happened.

02:33For sure.

02:33They would have had a much better path, by the way, to get through, but they would have

02:38played Botafogo in the first round here in the knockout stages.

02:42I don't know if they beat Botafogo, who was the champions of Brazil last year, but they

02:46definitely have a better chance to beat them than the champions of the Champions League.

02:52I mean, PSG, we talked about it on Friday, man.

02:57Like, PSG genuinely plays with an unbelievable pace.

03:03All of their players are young and insanely fast and athletic.

03:08Every single one.

03:09The pace was remarkable.

03:09Crowder, I'm telling you, because again, I don't know anything about soccer.

03:13It was so evident.

03:15I mean, it was remarkable what I was watching out there.

03:18I couldn't believe it.

03:19I felt claustrophobic and I didn't have the ball.

03:23I can't even imagine how those Inter-Miami players felt.

03:28And Inter-Miami plays at a tremendously slow pace because, you know, they're all 155 years

03:36old.

03:36So they can't play.

03:38And, you know, Hawk, no joke.

03:40I saw people ripping Maschidano, the manager of Inter-Miami, the style that they played with.

03:45And why would they just defend?

03:47And if they would have, if Inter-Miami would have came out and they would have tried to

03:52play an attack-minded game and try to get Messi in space early, they would have allowed, I'm

04:00not kidding, 10 to 15 goals on him.

04:03PSG just showed you how much respect they have for Leo Messi in the second half by kind

04:09of just touching and playing a possession game.

04:13They could have scored eight, nine goals on Inter-Miami in the second half if they wanted.

04:17They really wanted to.

04:19It's just, it's a different, Hawk and Crowder, it doesn't take five, 10 years and then a ton

04:26of money to boost up an MLS league and one team to go compete against the giants of Europe.

04:34Like, it's not that simple.

04:35I saw people saying that maybe now the MLS will open up the cap and like, sure, open up

04:39the cap.

04:40But you're talking about decades and decades and decades of putting money into infrastructure

04:46in Europe to literally build up young players through youth academies, a culture of building

04:55players.

04:57You're going to, in 10 years, and Leo Messi is going to change that and you're going to

05:01go beat a team like this?

05:02Like, it's just, it's insane what people were trying to do here by turning this game into

05:06something bigger than what it was.

05:08Inter-Miami getting out of the group was the big win here, period, end of story.

05:11I watched something about that, like the soccer academies and the baseball academies and, you

05:17know, in the Hispanic country, like DR and all them.

05:21And it's like, you know, we, we play around where, okay, you know, have something to fall

05:25back on.

05:26Let's go to college, get that degree.

05:28And, you know, maybe you'll make it to the league one day.

05:31Them boys go and play soccer and baseball all day long, go to sleep, watching baseball,

05:36wake up playing baseball and soccer.

05:38Like they've been doing, like you're saying, Solana, for decades.

05:40I think it was a 30 for 30 or something I watched the other day.

05:46Still won nothing, huh?

05:47Go to school, go to school, kids.

05:48Don't listen to what I say.

05:49Go to school, get your education.

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