T&T util­i­ty play­er, Jo­evin Jones came off the bench ear­ly in the first-half for for­mer France-in­ter­na­tion­al Blaise Ma­tu­i­di as In­ter Mi­a­mi bat­tled to a 1-1 draw with At­lanta Unit­ed in the US Ma­jor League Soc­cer at DRV PNK Sta­di­um on Sun­day.

Josef Mar­tinez scored in his first MLS start since suf­fer­ing a sea­son-end­ing ACL in­jury in Week 1 of the 2020 sea­son for At­lanta, but Lewis Mor­gan res­cued In­ter Mi­a­mi CF from the throws of de­feat, scor­ing a sec­ond-half equal­iz­er to give In­ter Mi­a­mi, a sec­ond drawn re­sult in four match­es to move to five points.

The Venezue­lan tal­is­man re­ceived an Emer­son Hyn­d­man cross, turned in­to the space al­lot­ted by In­ter Mi­a­mi cen­ter-back Ryan Shaw­cross and tucked a low shot in­side the post to give the Five Stripes the ear­ly 1-0 lead in the 9th minute.

It was Mar­tinez's first MLS reg­u­lar sea­son goal since Oct. 6, 2019 and first goal for the Five Stripes since a strike against Mo­tagua in the Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League on Feb­ru­ary 25, 2020.

In­ter Mi­a­mi had a gold­en chance to equal­ize nine min­utes lat­er when Gon­za­lo Higuain was grant­ed an open look at goal fol­low­ing a missed clear­ance at­tempt by Miles Robin­son. But goal­keep­er Brad Guzan came up big, kick­ing away the chance for a Mi­a­mi cor­ner.

In­ter Mi­a­mi had a penal­ty shout on the hour mark when it ap­peared Robin­son han­dled a Gon­za­lo Higuain at­tempt. But a cor­ner kick, and not a penal­ty kick, was award­ed.

The Mi­a­mi equal­iz­er came in the 77th minute with Mor­gan re­ceiv­ing a Gre­gore pass, split­ting a pair of At­lanta de­fend­ers and beat­ing Guzan with a left-foot­ed shot for his third ca­reer goal against the Five Stripes.

The hosts pe­ti­tioned for an­oth­er penal­ty in sec­ond-half stop­page time when Guzan couldn't cor­ral Vic­tor Ul­loa’s first at­tempt and ap­peared to make con­tact with the mid­field­er, who went down. But ref­er­ee Joseph Dick­er­son didn't point to the spot.

In­ter Mi­a­mi re­turns to ac­tion on Wednes­day away to CF Mon­tre­al.