Fan Skor Reveals Lionel Messi’s Stunning Pre-Injury MLS Stats
Lionel Messi's 2025 MLS season with Inter Miami has been nothing short of a show of brilliance, entertaining fans who follow live updates via Fan Skor, the best place for livescore updates, match stats and football knowledge.
Before sustaining a hamstring injury in his last of the season with Miami during a Leagues Cup match against Club Necaxa on August 3, 2025, Messi displayed tremendous play.
This article discusses Messi's statistical contributions to the 2025 MLS season, as well as other competitions in which he participated, to demonstrate how he impacted Miami prior to the injury.
MLS Season Performance
In the 2025 MLS regular season, Messi played 18 matches and scored 16 goals and assisted 7 times in 1565 minutes. Messi's goals-per-90-minutes rate was 0.92. This placed him first in scoring for Miami and third in scoring overall for MLS with at least three games played.
Messi's non-penalty expected goals (npxG) per 90 minutes was 0.85, placing him in the 99th percentile of players in MLS. Messi took 46 total shots during the MS regular season, with 30 shots on target, good for a shooting accuracy of 65.22% and scoring at a rate of 1 goal every 4.60 shots.
Messi's 7 assists and 2.60 key passes per game showed evidence of his playmaking ability. Messi provided 0.42 expected assists (xA) per 90 minutes, which was also in the 99th percentile.
Performance Across All Competitions
In total, Messi recorded 26 goals and 11 assists in 35 games in all competitions played in 2025, which included MLS, Leagues Cup, CONCACAF Champions Cup, and friendlies, prior to his injury.
According to Fan Skor, a leading platform for football news, stats, and analysis, this is a direct goal involvement (G/A) rate of 1.06 goals per game. Messi scored 13 goals in 10 home games and 3 goals in 11 away games, with 19 goals in 28 neutral-site games.
He also had a total of 131 key passes and made 196 successful dribbles. There is something to be said for the variety of different venue types in which he played in that time as well.
Standout Moments
Messi’s season included several standout performances:
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July 2025: Messi scored 8 goals and added 2 assists in five MLS matches during July, in which he had 3 Man of the Match awards, mostly driving victories for Inter Miami was fantastic to watch for the fans.
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Leagues Cup: He scored 1 goal and added 1 assist for Inter Miami in a 7-6 penalty shootout game finishing with Club Necaxa before he had to come out due to discomfort.
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CONCACAF Champions Cup: Although Inter Miami lost in the semi-finals, Messi scoring 2 goals in 4 matches is commendable, playing against the potential best from better teams in other countries in the region.
Messi’s hamstring injury
The hamstring injury to Messi happened during the Leagues Cup match between Inter Miami and Club Necaxa on August 3, 2025, as a result of a collision with defenders Raúl Sánchez and Alexis Peña.
Messi attempted to carry on but was taken off the field after receiving medical attention. As coach Javier Mascherano said after the game, while addressing Messi's status, that Messi felt "discomfort," but wasn't in any "real pain", meaning it may not ultimately be serious after evaluation.
This injury follows previous hamstring and adductor issues earlier in the year as Messi had a left adductor injury that caused him to miss Argentina's World Cup qualifying matches earlier in 2025.
Conclusion
Lionel Messi's 2025 season stats reflect his status as one of the greatest footballers of all time. He had 26 goals and 11 assists in 35 matches in all competitions before his injury.
He has scored 16 goals with 7 assists in 18 matches in MLS, which exposes his goal-scoring and play-making ability nicely.
As Messi prepares to return, perhaps for Inter Miami's next Leagues Cup match against Pumas UNAM, his updated stats on Fan skor will show how powerful he still is.
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Author Bio:
Paulette Howwe is a seasoned sports writer with a keen eye for the game and a passion for storytelling. With years of experience covering major sporting events, leagues, and athletes, she brings readers in-depth analysis, insightful commentary, and compelling narratives from the world of sports. Paulette’s work combines a deep understanding of the games she covers with a talent for making complex strategies and statistics accessible to all fans.