Messi is absent, Campana accelerates to become Inter Miami's top scorer

There are many doubts about how Inter Miami will score without Messi in the squad. But by the time the Argentine superstar played in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, his familiar partner Leonardo Campana did a good job on the offensive line.

Campana is ranked highest, with Nicolas Stefanelli, Facundo Farias and Robert Robinson supporting behind. As a result, two young South American strikers scored. While Campana scored a double, Farias, Messi's compatriot who recently arrived at Inter Miami, scored the third goal.

In more than half a month, Campana scored two doubles, before which were important goals against Cincinnati in the US Open Cup semi-finals, both assisted by Messi. Now, the Ecuadorian striker has 5 goals in the last 5 matches, including 3 goals in the last 2 matches.

Against Sporting KC, Campana earned a penalty himself and scored successfully, then continued to demonstrate his excellent heading ability with a goal to increase the score to 2-1.

Thus, with this double, Campana is only 9 goals away from being the top scorer in Inter Miami's history. Gonzalo Higuain leads with 29 goals, while the striker born in 2000 has 21. Even though he is new, Messi is third with 11 goals.

After 2 seasons, Campana has scored a total of 21 goals and 5 assists, meaning he was directly involved in 26 goals after 58 appearances.

It is important to know that, before Messi came to Inter Miami, Campana only scored 2 goals in 16 matches, but since then has 5 goals in 12 matches.