Seattle document an emphatic win in a match the place Miami’s Luis Suarez appeared to spit on a Sounders staffer post-game.
Printed On 1 Sep 2025
Alex Roldan transformed from the penalty spot late within the second half and had an help throughout the first half as hosts Seattle Sounders defeated Lionel Messi-led Inter Miami 3-0 to win the 2025 Leagues Cup remaining.
The match on Sunday was marred by a melee on the remaining whistle involving a number of gamers from each groups. Miami striker Luis Suarez gave the impression to be one of many gamers on the center of it, and video cameras appeared to seize him spitting at a member of Seattle’s workers post-game because the melee died down.
The Leagues Cup is held collectively by Main League Soccer (MLS) and Liga MX with Concacaf sanctioning, and thus has a disciplinary committee impartial from each leagues or the continental federation. Presumably, it might be chargeable for deciding any self-discipline for the incident, although probably MLS might additionally get entangled.
Roldan arrange Osaze De Rosario’s fourth purpose of the event for the opener for Seattle, which received its second Concacaf honour and ninth all-time main trophy since starting MLS play in 2009.
It’s the Sounders’ first since they defeated Mexico’s Pumas UNAM over two legs to win the 2022 Concacaf Champions League, ending a run of 16 consecutive Mexican champions in that occasion.
Paul Rothrock scored the third within the remaining moments of a win that assured Seattle a first-round bye into the spherical of 16 on the 2026 Concacaf Champions Cup.
Miami didn’t safe their third main trophy since Messi’s arrival throughout the summer season of the 2023 season and their second Leagues Cup title after successful the 2023 occasion.
The Herons are nonetheless assured a Concacaf spot subsequent yr, however they’ll begin within the first spherical until they win the 2025 MLS Cup.
Seattle had been dominant throughout the first half and went deservingly in entrance within the twenty sixth minute.
Jesus Ferreira performed the preliminary ball out vast to Roldan on the appropriate, and Roldan curled in an outswinging cross to the far publish, the place De Rosario met it with a decisive header.
Miami wasted two wonderful probabilities to stage early within the second half, with Suarez offering the link-up play.
Within the fiftieth minute, it was Messi, arriving simply above the six-yard field to Suarez’s spinning, cutback go, however the Argentinian star fired over goalkeeper Andrew Thomas.
Then within the sixtieth minute, Tadeo Allende was on the top of Suarez’s intelligent backheel, however he despatched his strike vast of the appropriate publish as Thomas charged off his line.
That proved pricey when Sounders substitute Georgi Minoungou obtained free down the left aspect of the sector within the 82nd minute. With Yannick Vivid monitoring again to defend, Minoungou tried a cutback and was caught by Vivid’s sliding problem.
Roldan coolly transformed the penalty previous Oscar Ustari within the 84th minute to show stress into pleasure for many of a crowd of 69,314 at Lumen Area – a Leagues Cup and membership single-game attendance document.
