The 5-3 scoreline is not a triumph; it is a five-alarm fire wrapped in a headline. While the media rushes to frame Lionel Messi’s brace as yet another miracle in pink, anyone who watched Saturday’s win over the New York Red Bulls saw the same structural rot that has plagued Inter Miami all season: a defense so porous that three goals conceded is now treated as an acceptable cost of doing business. This is not tactical daring. It is abandonment of duty. Gerardo Martino has built a team that treats defending as an afterthought, relying on the idea that Messi, Luis Suárez, and a revamped attack can outscore any opponent. Against a Red Bulls side that had scored only 1.2 goals per game on the road, Miami conceded three — the first a simple cutback where Kamal Miller lost his mark, the second a set-piece header where no one tracked the runner, the third a breakaway where Sergii Kryvtsov turned like a freighter in harbor. Those are not isolated