India, Aug. 30 -- Lionel Messi rolled back the years with a sensational four-goal performance as Inter Miami thrashed CF Montreal 7-1, ending a five-match winless run in emphatic fashion. The 39-year-old was directly involved in five of Miami's seven goals, scoring four and setting up Luis Suarez as the hosts produced their biggest win of the season. It was also Messi's first four-goal match for Inter Miami and his first anywhere since February 2020, when he struck four for Barcelona against Eibar in La Liga.

More than six years later, there was little sign that age had dulled Messi's ability to take a game apart. Inter Miami went ahead in the 20th minute through Casemiro, who headed home from a Telasco Segovia corner for his first MLS g...