In the 2022 season, FC Cincinnati defeated Inter Miami FC 3-1 at home and 4-4 in South Florida to earn four points. Each of the first four meetings between the teams had been won by Inter Miami FC, including victories in FC Cincinnati in May and September 2021.
FC Cincinnati has won all five of its games so far this season (W3 D2), including victories over both opponents at TQL Stadium. FC Cincinnati has never recorded a three-match home series of wins in the club’s MLS history.
After starting the season with back-to-back victories, Inter Miami FC has lost three straight matches. Only the Chicago Fire in 1998 (which lost in a breakaway shootout) and D. C. United in 2022 have won six points in their first four games of a season before losing the rest.
Brandon Vasquez, who scored the lone goal for FC Cincinnati against Nashville SC on Saturday, has scored five goals in six games against Inter Miami FC, including two goals in both of their meetings last season. In FC Cincinnati’s MLS history, his five goals against the Herons were the most ever scored by a player against a single opponent.
In his first four games for Inter Miami FC, Josef Martinez hasn’t scored and hasn’t hit a goal in three of those games, all starts. His streak of four games without a goal, which spanned four matches in September and October 2018, is the longest of his MLS career.
