Marked for Owen Wright
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Uneasy
Squad7 May 2046
A fracture rules Tyler Morris out for 65 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Inter Miami CF will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings7 May 2046
Nobody could get near Josh Reyna
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 May 2046
A place in the month's best eleven for Hector Rodriguez
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Hector Rodriguez has come out of that comparison in the side, and Inter Miami CF have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Squad7 May 2046
Ali Trezeguet has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter Miami CF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Player ratings7 May 2046
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 13 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match5 May 2046
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Charlotte Football Club came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Player ratings7 May 2046
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 12 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings7 May 2046
A defender's afternoon for Walker Zardes
Defensive actions: 10. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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Uneasy
The terraces30 Apr 2046
The mood at Inter Miami CF has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad30 Apr 2046
A fracture rules Tyler Morris out for 72 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Inter Miami CF will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match28 Apr 2046
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 87th, and New England Revolution spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Match28 Apr 2046
Inter Miami CF make home a hard place to visit
10 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Player ratings30 Apr 2046
Nobody could get near Josh Reyna
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match28 Apr 2046
A 2‑1 win over New England Revolution, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings30 Apr 2046
Marked 7.69 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Inter Miami CF had the best player on the pitch.
Squad30 Apr 2046
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hector Vega, and the manager let it.
Squad30 Apr 2046
Diego Salcedo has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Inter Miami CF will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
The terraces2 Apr 2046
The mood at Inter Miami CF has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad2 Apr 2046
A fracture rules Tyler Morris out for 100 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Inter Miami CF will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match31 Mar 2046
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Inter Miami CF are no longer polite ones.
Match31 Mar 2046
8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Player ratings2 Apr 2046
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings2 Apr 2046
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.74 on the card, and the Inter Miami CF support went home talking about one name.
Squad2 Apr 2046
Javier Jimenez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad2 Apr 2046
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Hector Rodriguez is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Squad2 Apr 2046
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Brandon Moore commits to Inter Miami CF for another 3 years.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Feb 2046
The manager makes an example of Ali Trezeguet
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad26 Feb 2046
Hugo Ochoa asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad26 Feb 2046
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Aug 2045
James Pulisic damages knee ligaments — 41 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 41 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings14 Aug 2045
Both of them Josh Reyna's — 7.94
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 7.94, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match12 Aug 2045
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. New England Revolution tried to reorganise, Inter Miami CF did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Squad14 Aug 2045
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ali Trezeguet and Inter Miami CF agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad14 Aug 2045
Javier Jimenez falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad14 Aug 2045
The team sheet said everything about Josh Brooks
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Josh Brooks.
Market14 Aug 2045
9 months and counting on Owen Wright
Still no offer on the table, and Owen Wright’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Player ratings14 Aug 2045
Successful dribbles: 6. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
The terraces26 Jun 2045
The mood at Inter Miami CF has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad26 Jun 2045
A knee injury of the worst kind for James Pulisic
90 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Inter Miami CF lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Jun 2045
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Inter Miami CF may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.