Overview
- Game 2 kicks off Saturday at 7:30 p.m. EDT at GEODIS Park in Nashville.
- Inter Miami leads the best-of-three 1-0 after a 3-1 home win in which Lionel Messi scored twice.
- The series winner advances to face FC Cincinnati or Columbus Crew in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
- Messi enters as Miami’s primary scorer with 31 goals and 16 assists this season, and Miami has won the last six meetings with Nashville.
- Nashville lists multiple absences, including Wyatt Meyer, Matthew Corcoran, Julian Gaines, Jonathan Perez, Ahmed Qasem and Taylor Washington, while Miami is without David Ruiz and Obando.