Pedro Martins scored the game-winning goal and assisted on the equalizer during a remarkable 4-3 comeback victory for FC Dallas over host Inter Miami on Sunday night in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
FC Dallas (4-3-3, 15 points) scored three goals in a span of 17 minutes to erase a 3-1 deficit and record its first victory since March 29.
Inter Miami (5-1-3, 18 points) lost a match in league play for the first time this season.
Martins’ goal, which he shot past Miami goalkeeper Drake Callender off an assist from Logan Farrington in the 81st minute, helped Dallas stun a Miami team that played without stars Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets.
The quartet sat out the match three days after Inter Miami lost 2-0 at the Vancouver Whitecaps in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions Cup semifinals. Miami plays the second leg on Wednesday at home.
Inter Miami started only one player — Maxi Falcon — from the group it started against Vancouver. This included a switch at goalie, with Callender making his second start of the season instead of Oscar Ustari.
Dallas had been held without a goal in each of its previous two matches.
In the 56th minute, Inter Miami’s Hector David Martinez gave his side a two-goal edge when he came racing in and fired a shot with his left foot that bounced off the far post and in.
Osaze Urhoghide answered when he right-footed a ball from the center of the box past Callender in the 64th minute.
Martins then found Anderson Julio on a long ball as he rushed downfield. Julio took the ball and fired it on the run past Callender to knot the match at 3 in the 69th minute.
After Shaq Moore gave Dallas an early 1-0 lead in the eighth minute, Inter Miami’s Fafa Picault tied it at 1 in the 16th minute when he kicked home a rebound.
Ecuadorian 18-year-old Allen Obando put Miami ahead 2-1 in the 29th minute when he scored his first career MLS goal off an assist from Ian Fray in what was his first career start.
–Field Level Media
