Inter Miami failed to score for the first time since Lionel Messi ed the team, playing a scoreless draw with Nashville on Wednesday night.
Messi failed to convert two free kick attempts in his first Major League Soccer match at home, and it was the first time during his Inter Miami tenure that he was kept off the score sheet.
"Yeah I think when you put many players close to your own goal normally you're going to have a good chance of keeping a clean sheet," said the Inter Miami boss after the game.
He continued: "And I think what changed today is that with (Sam) Surridge and (Hany) Mukhtar they're very offensive players that they had in the first game, that they didn't, they weren't here or they didn't start today. So defensively, they had more."
Inter Miami still earned a point in the standings as it looks to make a late-season playoff push. Miami entered the game 11 points shy of the MLS playoff line and needing to move up from 14th to ninth place to make the playoffs with 11 regular-season matches left.