FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA: Orlando City head coach Oscar Pareja says his team’s defeat to Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami on Wednesday was a “circus” and said that the Argentine should have been sent off.
Messi scored twice for Miami in a 3-1 win to move into the last-16 of the Leagues Cup but the Colombian coach was furious with the decisions of Salvadorian referee Ivan Barton.
Messi was booked in the 21st minute and Pareja felt he should have been dismissed with a second yellow after another foul. “There was a double yellow card for Leo Messi.
I don’t care that he was Messi. That affects the game. The match should be fair and that was not the case on the field. “We take our responsibility, OK, we lost, we are frustrated but I have to say (this), you cannot hide this kind of situation,” he said.