Muller has surpassed Messi's scoring rate in the MLS and has set the record for the best goal per 90 minutes rate since joining the MLS in August. Thomas Muller set a goal rate of 1.16 goals per 90 minutes average in seven games, surpassing Messi's 1.08 rate. He also overtook LAFC's Son Heung-Min, who also arrived in the MLS in August.

Inter Miami's Lionel Messi hopes to one day return to Barcelona, where he spent the majority of his soccer career, he wrote Monday on Instagram.