Inter Miami drew 0–0 with Club Universitario de Deportes in their second preseason match of 2025. Javier Mascherano rolled out a similar starting lineup to the one that played Club America earlier in January outside of Oscar Ustari and Tadeo Allende.

Inter Miami underwent another front-office change last week as Guillermo Hoyos, a longtime Lionel Messi associate from his youth days in Barcelona, had his role expanded from director of player development and methodology of the second team to being directly involved in scouting and roster construction of the first team.

Lionel Messi failed to score, but Inter Miami beat Universitario – Peruvian’s back-to-back champions – with a 5-4 edge in penalty kicks on Wednesday.