Messi scores two in four minutes on injury return

Lionel Messi marked his instrumentality from wounded with 2 goals and an assistance to assistance Inter Miami to a 3-1 triumph against Philadelphia Union.

The World Cup-winning Argentina skipper had not played since injuring his ankle successful his country's Copa America last triumph implicit Colombia successful July.

That saw him miss this month's World Cup qualifiers, portion helium besides sat retired 8 games for his Major League Soccer broadside - though they pb the MLS Eastern Conference standings.

But the 37-year-old erstwhile Barcelona prima played the afloat 90 minutes successful his archetypal commencement for 3 months and ran the show.

Philadelphia took the pb aft 58 seconds done Mikael Uhre but Miami equalised successful the 26th minute, Messi beating a defender and lashing location aft collecting a walk from Luis Suarez pursuing bully enactment from different ex-Barca team-mate successful Jordi Alba.

Messi fired his squad up 4 minutes aboriginal aft being teed up by Alba and went connected to acceptable up Suarez for Miami's 3rd heavy successful second-half wounded time.

After the lucifer Messi, who present has 14 goals successful 13 games this season, acknowledged helium was "a small tired".

"I truly wanted to travel back, I had been disconnected of the tract for a agelong time," helium added.

"Little by small I was grooming with the group, feeling bully and that's wherefore we decided that I would start, and I'm precise happy."

Elsewhere, LA Galaxy fought backmost from 2 goals down to bushed Los Angeles rivals LAFC 4-2 arsenic the apical 2 teams successful the Western Conference met.