Lionel Messi gave Inter Miami a pep talk this week, exhorting his MLS team to be “more united than ever” to get through a recent rough stretch. Motivational speeches sometimes work. Messi being Messi almost never fails.

Lionel Messi's late goal and assist on Saturday night helped Inter Miami erase the Philadelphia Union's 3-1 lead and give the Herons a badly needed point away from home.

With a goal in the 87th minute and the assist on Telasco Segovia’s blast in the 95th, Messi led a late comeback to deny the Union what would have been an epic win.