Dallas vs Inter Miami LIVE: Lionel Messi scores after SIX minutes thanks to VAR review…but Inter Miami heading out of Leagues Cup

ON: Tsiki Ntsabeleng, Ema Twumasi

ON: Robbie Robinson, Leonardo Campana

This is a little funny because Busquets does not touch Velasco at all, but he falls down and gets punished anyways

The fullback tried finding Taylor at the back post but its cleared

It’s crunch time for Lionel Messi.

They’ve been clinical at times but they’re also severely exposed for counter attacks – which has burned them multiple times already.

The question remains: can they hold on defensively while pushing up field to get the win or to tie the match?

Arriola tries to cut this back to Velasco and Taylor goes sliding in to clear it. He boots it straight into the back of his own net! Unbelievable!

It’s Benjamin Cremaschi! Just seconds after coming on the pitch!

Jordi Alba cuts it back across the mouth of goal to put it on the feet of the 18-year-old from Miami to bring the Herons back within one!

It’s Velasco (or is it Ibeagha?)! He’s been looking for something all night long!

Velasco’s free kick is sublimely taken, whipped in and either goes straight through to Callender or it takes a touch off the foot of Ibeagha.

Either way, Messi and company have very little time to crawl back in this one as a substitution comes on for the Herons.

Yedlin drags Marco Farfan down by the neck and does not get a card of any kind – but Dallas has a free kick

Kamungo, the second goal scorer, is off for the night

ON: Paul Arriola, Eugene Ansah

That would’ve been a heat-seeking missile from Busquets after being laid off by Messi but it goes too high.

Ferreira has a beautiful ball played straight through, with the striker one-on-one with the keeper.

But instead of trying a shot on Callender from distance, he dribbles closer and closer, allowing Kamal Miller to track him down and pick his pocket clean.

Martinez is now hunched over holding his knees after committing himself to that attempt.

Eventually, he gets up and returns to play.

Ferreira is wholly, completely unmarked – and he puts it wide of the net to Callender’s right

Jordi Alba lost track of the goalscorer, who had a free header on net but pushed it wide

Messi found Gomez in space to try the shot to equalize the game, but it rolls wide of the net

Miami trails in this competition for the first time. Will they recover?

No extra time, but Dallas will be walking into the locker room happy after grabbing the late goal to take the lead.

With this opposition, nothing is a given – but Dallas could be on for a great result here if this holds for another 45 minutes.

The dream is alive for Dallas!

This all starts with a poor clearance in front of Paes but it’s slowly built up from Lletget to Velasco, then through to Ferreira.

Ferreira pulls back and lays it off for Kamungo who dribbles past Kryvtsov, Miller, and Callender to tap it in an take the lead over Miami

It was a lay off for the Finnish winger, but he takes it one time and sends it over the bar

Dallas smells blood in the water and is now on the attack once again

Messi’s countryman and fellow Newell’s Old Boys alum Facundo Quignon takes a beautiful one-time shot into the side netting and ties the game

Robert Taylor’s first effort is snuffed out by Paes

Then, Messi’s chipped chance back in is cleanly headed away by Tafari

A third chance was hit slow and right at Paes who covers up to distribute it

Paes came well off his line to make the save anyways, but the flag goes up for offside

This game is much like the weather it’s being played in: running hot.

Both sides have had dangerous chances and Messi’s goal is the only difference so far.

Jordi Alba – in his first start – secures the ball with Callender after the mistake frm Gomez

They appear to claim that the ball went off Miller’s arm, but the referee ignores their appeals

He took a shot out from over 25 yards out. He overcooked it.

The corner from Velasco is cleared by a strong defensive header and is settled by Callender

Tafari puts in a really hard challenge in on Josef Martinez and sends the Venezuelan striker flying to the ground

It’s a great free kick from the Dallas man and it comes so close to bending in

Whoooo boy was that an amazing goal. Who else could it have been but Lionel Messi? And on an assist from Jordi Alba to boot!

However, Martinez was standing in front of Paes in an offside position. After VAR interjected, the goal was given because Martinez didn’t quite interfere with Paes’s vision or ability to attempt to make the save.

Yet another for Lionel Messi. Unreal.

Drake Callendar had a fantastic save and Ferreria’s run to put the ball in the net with his head was just too early. The linesman raises the flag for offside.

A great cross meets the American striker’s head, but it just goes past Callender’s right post

After a delay, the ball is kicked and this match has begun here at Toyota Stadium just outside of Dallas

The fans in Frisco are gathered to watch this spectacle as the heat beats down on all of them in Lionel Messi’s first away match

It’s currently 98°F in Frisco and with 32% humidity, it feels like 101°F (about 40°C) so there will be at least one hydration break per half. It will stay in the 90s throughout the match tonight.

Many Messi fans have packed the stands on what is an absolute scorcher of a day

Well, there’s one big reason (or rather, a little reason) why they’re here and it’s this guy they just got that you may not have heard of named Lionel Andres Messi.

In his first appearance with the club, Messi scored a worldie of a free kick to down Cruz Azul – then followed that up with a brace against Eastern Conference foes Atlanta United.

Messi got two more goals against fellow Floridians Orlando City – bringing his total up to five goals in three matches in the United States.

Praise should also be heaped onto Finnish star Robert Taylor – who managed three goals and two assists for himself in three starts.

After drawing their first game against Charlotte FC – earning a sole point – Dallas scored early on in what became a 3-0 win over Necaxa.

In the Round of 32 against Liga MX side Mazatlan, Dallas traded goals via a penalty in the 48th minute for FCD followed by a 57′ strike from Mazatlan.

But substitute Eugene Ansah saved the day for the Hoops to set up this matchup tonight.

Messi & Co. have arrived for their Round of 16 matchup

Defender Kamal Miller has described the environment in the Dallas suburb of Frisco as ‘like an oven’ but adds that ‘being [from] Florida helps a bit more’

DEF: DeAndre Yedlin, Serhiy Kryvtsov, Kamal Miller, Jordi Alba

MID: Dixon Arroyo, Sergio Busquets, Diego Gomez

ATT: Lionel Messi, Josef Martinez, Robert Taylor

DEF: Geovane Jesus, Sebastien Ibeagha, Nkosi Tafari, Marco Farfan

MID: Sebastian Lletget, Facundo Quignon, Alan Velasco

ATT: Bernard Kamungo, Jesus Ferreira, Jader Obrian

Today will see a battle of MLS sides as Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami travels deep in the heart of Texas to take on FC Dallas