Yahoo Sports contributors Christian Polanco and Alexis Guerreros discuss Atlanta United’s upset over Inter Miami, eliminating Miami and Messi from the playoffs and how it happened. Hear the full conversation on the “The Cooligans” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.

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Mls playoffs into Miami Zack.

You're done, son.

Let me see if I get this right.

There we go.

They are done.

They are out of the playoffs eliminated.

Tim Cook must have punched his TV screen.

He's like, how am I going to explain this to the shareholders?

This wasn't the plan, bro.

This is not why you give, how much is Messi getting paid 60 some odd million a season?

Is that what it is?

He's getting paid quite a bit, but Atlanta United get it done in three games, beating into Miami at home, the points in the regular season, like 40 points, something like that.

Dude.

That's a whole other season.

This is why you want to be in first place.

Why you want to win the supporter shield to play the weakest team in your conference.

And I mean, and this is one of, uh, I think one of the most historic and, and entertaining is this the biggest upset in MLS history I have without a doubt.

It's not like uh unheard of for something for something like this to happen, but it's messy.

This is, uh, look a historic defeat.

I mean, with the amount of money that was put uh for this inter Miami team and we have to just be real.

They can be like, yo, Messi was not that good throughout this series.

Not good enough without a doubt.

Game three, how many?

And when you watch the game, how many misplaced passes did Messi make?

How many times did he give the ball away?

He turned the ball over probably like, I don't know, maybe about four or five times.

And again, this is why I give credit to L A and United because they had a, a plan on how to face this team.

So I thought Atlanta handled this so well, even after going down a goal in this third game, it was just a great performance and there's, there was, I mean, I was making jokes all game.

I was just like, yeah, Garber's upset, you know, Tim Cook is upset.

This is just a, a huge moment I think and what even how we sort of perceive what Messi's impact was supposed to be because this was not, it.

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