The Spanish striker Bojan krkic and the Argentine Maximiliano Urruti scored the goals that gave him the 2-1 victory this Saturday Montreal Impact in front of Inter Miami in a match corresponding to Week 19 of the United States Professional Soccer League (MLS).
The first goal of the match came six minutes after the actions began at the Red Bull Arena, a field that Impact uses as its headquarters as it cannot compete in Canada due to the coronavirus pandemic, and that Bojan scored with a powerful shot from more than 50 meters away to beat goalkeeper John McCarthy.
The goal gave confidence to the Canadian team that controlled the times well in the center of the field with the possession of the ball, but Inter Miami, immediately, also looked for the tie and with the Argentine forward Gonzalo Higuaín as the most dangerous player of their attack.
That arrived in the 33rd minute, but it was not because of a brilliant play but because of the bad fortune of Impact defender Rudy Camacho, who slightly deflected the ball after a shot by forward Brek Shea that dislodged Montreal goalkeeper James Pantemis.
Although both teams had opportunities to have scored another goal, the score did not change when they went to rest.
The game did not change inertia in the second half with equal forces, but without either team being able to define against the rival frame, the two archers being the most prominent players.
Until the 80th minute arrived and the veteran Urruti, 29, finished an excellent combination between the Honduran Romell Quioto and Bojan with a perfect shot on the fly inside the Inter Miami small area, without the goalkeeper McCarthy being able to do anything to avoid 2-1, which would later be the final score.
Earlier, Inter Miami, at minute 74, could have taken the lead if with Higuaín's powerful shot, the ball had not crashed into the bottom of the left post of the maro defended by Pantemis.
Then at minute 82 and 83, through Higuaín and his compatriot Matias Pellegrini, Inter Miami again had two clear chances of the goal that did not materialize due to the good work done by Pantemis, which ended, along with Bojan, like the two most prominent Impact players.
The defeat cut a streak of three straight games without losing by Inter Miami (18 points), which is still in twelfth place in the Eastern Conference, nine points behind sixth, the last that has the right to be in the playoffs.
In another game of the day, the Chicago Fire, at Soldier Field, rescued, in injury time, the 2-2 draw against Sporting Kansas City, which lost a great opportunity to have approached the leadership of the Western Conference and now he has to settle for staying in third place.