On the first goal, Dylan Nealis, another former Miami player, sent a long pass to Morgan, who made a clinical finish from the top of the 18.

Miami, meanwhile, never got anything going offensively, had trouble linking the midfield with the forwards, and got beat repeatedly.

“The weather was not an excuse because both teams played in the same conditions,” said midfielder Sergio Busquets. “We made a lot of mistakes that made it easy for them to score goals. We have not been able to find the consistency a team needs to compete at the highest level. We need to get players back from injury and from national team duty.

Messi is recovering from a strained hamstring and will be evaluated on a week-by-week basis. However, forward Luis Suarez, midfielder Busquets and left back Alba were in the Starting XI.

Also starting were Leo Campana, Lawson Sunderland, Julian Gressel, Noah Allen, Sergiy Kryvtsov, Tomas Aviles, Robert Taylor and C.J. Dos Santos in goal, replacing Drake Callender, who is with the U.S. national team. There was some question as to whether Campana would play, as he missed practice mid-week with an adductor strain, but he looked fit on Saturday.

In addition to Callender, five other Miami players were missing for international duty: Fede Redondo (Argentina U23), Diego Gomez (Paraguay), David Ruiz (Honduras), Shanyder Borgelin (Haiti), Israel Boatright (Dominican Republic U23).

Franco Negri, returning from a long injury absence, was on the bench. Four players from Inter Miami’s second team traveled as reinforcements: Tyler Hall, Ricardo Montenegro, Leo Afonso, and Jose Casas.

The Red Bulls were missing Carlos Coronel (Paraguay), John Tolkin (USA), Noah Eile (Sweden), Daniel Edelman (USA), Emil Forsberg (Sweden), and Cory Burke (Jamaica). All but Burke are starters.

Observations from the game:

Messi was missed

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