FC Dallas hands Inter Miami first MLS loss as Messi sits out

Pedro Martins scored the game-winning goal and assisted on the equalizer during a remarkable 4-3 comeback victory for FC Dallas over host Inter Miami on Sunday night in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

FC Dallas (4-3-3, 15 points) scored three goals in a span of 17 minutes to erase a 3-1 deficit and record its first victory since March 29.

The loss was the first of the season in MLS for Javier Mascherano's Inter Miami side.

"It's not easy. We played for 60-65 minutes. It was very good, we came from behind after the first goal which is not easy," Mascherano said after the game. "But as I told the players, I am responsible for the loss. I read the game wrong and couldn't help them. Well, maybe when it was 3-1, or just just 3-2, when we are about to make the changes, they started to make a line of five and to pair their 5-line I did some movements that didn't end up with results.

"Sometimes it is like that and you have to take care of it. That's reality."

Martins' goal, which he shot past Miami goalkeeper Drake Callender off an assist from Logan Farrington in the 81st minute, helped Dallas stun a Miami team that played without stars Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez, Jordi Alba and Sergio Busquets.

The quartet sat out the match three days after Miami lost 2-0 at the Vancouver Whitecaps in the first leg of the Concacaf Champions Cup semifinals. Miami plays the second leg on Wednesday at home.

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"Leo is good," Mascherano said after the game. "Obviously we decided, like many of our teammates, to reserve him after the game against Vancouver where we had to travel for six to seven hours and play on synthetic grass. But he's good, he trained today so he's ready."

Inter Miami started only one player -- Maxi Falcon -- from the group it started against Vancouver. This included a switch at goalie, with Callender making his second start of the season instead of Oscar Ustari.

Dallas had been held without a goal in each of its previous two matches.

In the 56th minute, Inter Miami's Hector Martinez gave his side a two-goal edge when he came racing in and fired a shot with his left foot that bounced off the far post and in.

Osaze Urhoghide answered when he right-footed a ball from the center of the box past Callender in the 64th minute.

Martins then found Anderson Julio on a long ball as he rushed downfield. Julio took the ball and fired it on the run past Callender to knot the match at 3 in the 69th minute.

After Shaq Moore gave Dallas an early 1-0 lead in the eighth minute, Inter Miami's Fafa Picault tied it at 1 in the 16th minute when he kicked home a rebound.

Ecuadorian 18-year-old Allen Obando put Miami ahead 2-1 in the 29th minute when he scored his first career MLS goal off an assist from Ian Fray in what was his first career start.

Information from Field Level Media was used in this story.