'United' Miami adapt after Alba, Lujan injuries

Inter Miami CF caput manager Javier Mascherano commended his players for coming unneurotic and being "united" successful a 4-2 win implicit Montreal astatine Chase Stadium connected Wednesday nighttime contempt suffering 3 injuries successful the archetypal half.

Miami defenders Gonzalo Luján and Jordi Alba near the transportation successful the archetypal 45 minutes of the crippled aft picking up muscular injuries, leaving Mascherano to marque aboriginal tactical changes. Tomás Avilés primitively replaced Lujan successful the 12th minute, earlier the subordinate wounded his ankle successful a collision and near the crippled astatine halftime.

"In the lawsuit of Gonzalo and Jordi, it was thing muscular, that time oregon successful these days we spot what the scope is," Mascherano said. "In the lawsuit of [Aviles], it was the ankle, it became swollen aft being stepped on. He could've possibly continued, but we didn't hazard it.

"It is antithetic to person to usage our windows truthful accelerated due to the fact that of the injuries. This shows that the squad is agreed and they privation to get retired of this situation. This is the way, everyone pushing to 1 side. I americium not saying that we haven't done that before, but these situations extremity up strengthening america arsenic a group. So hopefully we tin instrumentality this arsenic thing that strengthens america for the future."

The players instrumentality to enactment connected Saturday erstwhile hosting the Columbus Crew astatine Chase Stadium, giving small clip for Luján and Alba to recover. The squad already enters the crippled with different injuries, arsenic Yannick Bright, David Ruiz, Drake Callender and Baltasar Rodríguez stay disposable for Mascherano. Bright injured his hamstring successful Saturday's lucifer against the Philadelphia Union and his timetable to instrumentality is unknown.

Mascherano antecedently alluded to the roster's deficiency of depth, revealing helium provided a database of positions that request reinforcing up of the Club World Cup connected June 14.

"I told the nine what positions needed reinforcement," Mascherano said. "I told them wherever the squad needs to adhd depth, particularly due to the fact that we precocious sold Robert Taylor, Julian Gressel, and we person a comparatively abbreviated roster, that's the reality. That is my work arsenic a coach, past evidently I recognize that the nine volition spell retired and spot what the names are and what the possibilities are according to the fund we have."

Sources told ESPN that Inter Miami has expressed involvement successful signing Club América winger Brian Rodríguez up of the planetary FIFA competition.