Chicago Fire booked their place in the Major League Soccer playoffs on Tuesday with a roller coaster 5-3 victory over Lionel Messi’s Inter Miami.

Miami striker Luis Suarez scored twice to level it at 3-3 after Inter had trailed 3-1 against Gregg Berhalter’s well-organized Chicago side.

But Suarez’s second-half brace was in vain as a weary Miami — playing their sixth game in 17 days — ran out of steam before conceding two late goals at home in Fort Lauderdale.

Chicago’s win sees them return to the MLS postseason for the first time since 2017, and marks a successful return to club management for Berhalter, the former United States coach who was sacked from the national team last year.

“It was an objective of ours to reach the playoffs, and we’ve achieved it with two games left,” Berhalte

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