Inter Miami felt like a Lionel Messi team, just not the ones you remember most fondly. Instead, they were redolent of those last few years at Barcelona when he was carrying too heavy an offensive load, the weird PSG sojourn where all the attacking talent was on his side but the other team were playing as a unit.

Paris Saint-Germain steamrollered Lionel Messi's Inter Miami 4-0 to reach the Club World Cup quarter-finals on Sunday. It was not to be for Messi or Miami, but their second-half performance was respectable and the defeat was by a lesser margin than the French side's 5-0 Champions League final thrashing of Inter Milan.

LIVE!The 2025 Club World Cup has its latest quarter-finalist as Paris Saint-Germain breezed past Inter Miami in Atlanta today and, will face either Flamengo or Bayern Munich in the last eight.The Herons had been the surprise package of the tournament but a last-16 showdown against the best team in Europe ultimately proved a step too far for Lionel Messi and company as the Argentine was unable to conjure up something special to inspire a shock result for the MLS side.