Atlanta United's viral mockery after defeating Lionel Messi's Inter Miami

Inter Miami fell resoundingly against Atlanta United in a match where the Florida club lost 5 goals. Gerardo Martino's team did not have a good time against the Atlanta team and suffered their first defeat since Lionel Messi joined the team. Inter Miami has been seen as one of the clubs seeking to access the playoffs, and adding in this match was vital. However, it seems that the absence of Lionel Messi weighed on this duel.

Lionel Messi was not in the game for this duel due to his most recent physical discomfort from the last FIFA International Break, where he had minutes with the Argentine team. For this duel, Gerardo Martino decided not to count on the footballer. The Argentine coach confessed that this decision did not please Lionel Messi at all, however, he needs a Messi in his best physical version for the club's next commitments, where there is even a final involved. Lionel Messi has been the great reference for this Inter Miami.

They were two suggestive tweets that aimed directly at the captain of the Florida team who could not be part of the action due to muscle fatigue, which had also sidelined him on Tuesday from the duel between the Argentine team and Bolivia in the Qualifiers. By not traveling to Atlanta, the 34-year-old stayed with his family and on Friday night he shared a picture of pizza at dinner time. An action that was taken advantage of by Atlanta United to take the victory against Messi's team with humor.

What Atlanta United did to make fun of Inter Miami

Precisely, Atlanta's Spanish social media account published a photograph of a pizza with L-shaped tomatoes, which in English is used to represent the word Loser, and wrote “Here is your pizza for the trip. While the English account showed a photograph of the entire team celebrating in the locker room and smiling at the camera with the phrase “Say CHEESE”, in another nod dedicated to Messi.