The weather was perfect, for a change.
All of Inter Miami’s marquee players were healthy and in the starting lineup. Gonzalo Higuain, Rodolfo Pizarro, Robbie Robinson, Lewis Morgan, and Blaise Matuidi started together for the first time since Week 2.
And for the first 10 minutes, Miami looked like the cohesive, attacking team it has promised to be since its inception. The 13,963 fans at DRV PNK Stadium were energized.
But then everything unraveled, Miami trailed first-place New England 4-0 by halftime, and wound up losing 5-0, its most lopsided loss in the club’s two-year history.