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'There are no words': Miami coach gushes over Messi after Montreal masterclass

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Inter Miami interim coach Guillermo Hoyos ran out of superlatives for Lionel ⁠Messi after the Argentine playmaker scored four goals in a Major League Soccer match for the first ‌time in his career to inspire a 7-1 thrashing of CF ‌Montreal on Saturday.

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/messi-lionel/vgOOdZbd/"]Messi[/a]'s four-goal haul and an assist ‌came at a crucial time for [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/inter-miami/0AheRyBg/"]Miami[/a], helping them [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/soccer/cf-montreal-j9cigLCr/inter-miami-0AheRyBg/?mid=48wU5mmn"]snap ‌a five-game winless run across all competitions.[/a][/p][p]The 39-year-old restored ‌Miami's advantage shortly before half-time (a goal that has gone down as an own goal in some databases), struck again in the 52nd minute, completed his hat-trick in the 83rd and capped his ‌dazzling display with a free kick in ⁠stoppage time.[/p][p]The former [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/barcelona/SKbpVP5K/"]Barcelona[/a] ‌forward now tops the MLS scoring charts with 18 goals this ​season.[/p][embed guid="585b0b19-8568-40b4-a5e3-0ae43f20d4c2" url="https://x.com/InterMiamiCF/status/2093877751279223241" social-type="twitter" /][p][b]"There are no words to describe such footballing beauty," [/b]Argentine Hoyos said.[/p][p][b]"So much is going ​on that words simply fall short.[/b][/p][p][b]"He is constantly looking for that goal, that play, that pass; I don't think ⁠he's an ordinary ​footballer. Analysing him, both as a player and as a person, goes so deep that you run out of words."[/b][/p][p]Messi, who won the 2022 World Cup, also captained ‌Argentina to this year's World Cup final, where they lost to Spain.[/p][image alt="Key match stats" id="8fe20f4c-2d7f-4d5e-878d-42420d4eb980" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="66c3c648-04fb-478d-bd56-5291e3b7204c" original-width="2160" original-height="2700" /][p][b]"That's what it means to have Messi on the team,"[/b] Miami midfielder [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/casemiro/Ukeq3c0b/"]Casemiro[/a] told Apple TV.[/p][p][b]"We have to enjoy these moments because he is a person, a player that makes history."[/b][/p][p]Casemiro, 34, joined Miami in July after his contract expired at Manchester United.[/p][p]The Brazilian and Messi spent years on opposite sides of one ‌of football's fiercest rivalries, with Casemiro starring for Real ​Madrid and Messi for Barcelona, but are now ‌teammates.[/p][p][b]"We saw today that we have to enjoy it, keep supporting and keep competing with him because he continues to be the best,"[/b] Casemiro added.[/p][p][b]"He proved it in the World Cup. We have to ⁠enjoy it because, with ⁠him, we are so ‌much stronger."[/b][/p][embed guid="26ac5499-0d66-431c-8275-5bc345627be7" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfSf0FATxJs&pp=ygUDbWxz" social-type="youtube" /][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/soccer/usa/mls/"]Catch up on all the MLS results with Flashscore.[/a][/b][/p]

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