Featured Columnist IVJuly 25, 2024
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The MLS All-Stars had been with out gamers like Lionel Messi and Luiz Suárez for his or her matchup towards the Liga MX All-Stars, and boy did it present.
Liga MX hammered the MLS, 4-1, as Mexico’s top-flight league appeared far superior to that of its northern neighbors.
Germán Berterame, Oussama Idrissi, Juan Brunetta and Maximiliano Meza all tallied targets for Liga MX, whereas Cucho Hernández discovered the again of the online for MLS.
FOX Soccer @FOXSoccer
MLS All-Stars’ Cucho Hernández equalizes proper after a Liga MX purpose 😤💪
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After the competition, followers and pundits on social media did not pull many punches whereas discussing the MLS All-Stars’ disappointing efficiency:
Simply Ely 📚 @out_ely
Liga MX is barbecuing the MLS#MLSAllStar pic.twitter.com/MN2fSuSZ5z
Justina Gould @kinkygurl10
Your league is so unhealthy. 4-1? Cmon. Think about if it was towards Europe all stars
Scott Churchson @scottchurchson
That is turning into one other embarrassment from the #MLSAllStars.
Final yr a 5-0 blowout towards Arsenal, now down 4-1 to Liga MX.
Tony @Thony_0812
Liga MX continues to be LEVELS forward of each different North American league. They’re embarrassing the MLS Allstars.
Jack M @starblade125
the MLS all stars falling to items in entrance of the Liga MX all stars 2 days earlier than the beginning of Leagues Cup is a foul unhealthy look
Damacio Martinez @machosaucin
I actually do not perceive how folks actually imagine that MLS is above Liga MX. MLS might appeal to larger stars to retire there however excluding Europe after the Brazil league, it is the Mexican league.
Gabriel McDaniel @eldiabloblanco9
This #MLSAllStar sport is an absolute embarrassment. For everybody who thought MLS was very low degree soccer, you had been 100% appropriate.
It was not an incredible day for U.S. soccer.
Alongside the MLS All-Stars’ disappointing exhibiting, the USMNT squad representing the nation on the Paris Olympics fell to France, 3-0. Granted, the boys’s Olympics are a U-23 occasion, barring three older exemptions every nation can carry, so it wasn’t consultant of the nation’s greatest gamers. But it surely was nonetheless a disappointing end result.
As for the MLS All-Star Recreation, it in the end was a meaningless exhibition match. However within the ongoing and heated feud between United States and Mexican soccer, it afforded Mexican supporters some much-needed bragging rights.
These have been powerful to come back by for El Tri particularly—the USMNT hasn’t misplaced to the Mexican males’s nationwide crew in seven matches, with 5 of these being American wins. El Tri final beat the USMNT in 2019 in a pleasant, and has solely gained two of its previous 10 conferences with the USA relationship again to 2017,
