If Inter Miami CF are among the Audi 2025 MLS Cup Playoffs favorites, they’re not acting like it.

“I have confidence in the team, we have the best player of them all and we’re very excited,” star midfielder Rodrigo De Paul told reporters two days before the Herons host Nashville SC in Friday’s Round One Best-of-3 opener (8 pm ET | MLS Season Pass, Apple TV ; FS1, FOX Deportes).

“But in football, the best or more deserving team doesn’t always win.”

Ghosts of 2024

The latter statement hits particularly close to home for the Herons, whose historic 2024 Supporters’ Shield-winning season ended with a shocking Round One elimination at the hands of No. 9-seeded Atlanta United .

Homegrown defender Noah Allen was a part of that squad and wants nothing more than to exorcise the ghos

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