Overview
- FC Cincinnati host Inter Miami on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. ET at TQL Stadium, with the match on Apple TV’s MLS Season Pass, which carries every MLS game with no blackouts.
- Lionel Messi trained normally and is expected to start, having scored five goals in his first six league matches and sitting three behind Hugo Cuypers in the scoring race.
- Inter Miami enter in third after a 4-2 win over Toronto FC and bring four straight road victories into Ohio.
- FC Cincinnati sit sixth and are unbeaten in six, yet their defense has allowed 27 league goals and they are without Alvas Powell, Teenage Hadebe and Kristian Fletcher.
- Both outlets published projected XIs and highlighted absences for Miami, while recent meetings swung wildly, including Miami’s 4-0 playoff win in 2025 and Cincinnati’s 6-1 win in 2024.