The Fire are back in action following a week off and the team will hope to pick up right where they left off, with a win against the L.A. Galaxy ending the first half of the Fire’s season. The team starts a three game road swing in Toronto,
The Fire have one more chance before the international break – and the halfway point of their season – to find their third win of the season, but to do so, they’ll have to get past an L.A. Galaxy team that went from second last in the Western Conference in
As the Fire host the L.A. Galaxy at the halfway mark of their season, the team finds itself exploring the depths of soccer purgatory: On a winless streak that now stretches to nine matches, just two shy of the team’s all-time record, but also one game shy
With two games before the team closes the books on the first half of the season, the Fire look for their third win against Orlando City, a team that many picked to finish at or near the top of the Eastern Conference and compete for hardware but who have fallen
For the third match in a row, the Fire face a team with the series in near balance, this time at home against Orlando City, a team who came into 2024 with aspirations after a high-flying 2023 season but who have instead fallen firmly back to earth. The Fire
In the main match preview, I noted that D.C. has the second longest active playoff drought in the league, after the Fire, and in trying to get back to the postseason, they essentially pursued opposite strategies: The Fire made more changes to the squad, particularly at the top end,
With the Fire’s season on the ropes and the team stuck in 14th place out of 15 teams in the MLS Eastern Conference – and 28th out of 29 teams overall – the Fire travel to the nation’s capital looking for a spark that has long eluded the team as
After the loss in St. Louis, Frank Klopas and Xherdan Shaqiri both mentioned that it was still “early” in the season, causing me to do a bit of math. With two matches coming up that week, if the Fire won both, they’d have to be a slightly-better-than-
With little time to lick their wounds, the Fire are back in action in Soldier Field on Saturday, facing a classic foe in the Columbus Crew to conclude MLS’s Rivalry Week. The Fire are still looking for their first win in May and their first goal in front of
The Fire are back home for the first of two matches this week. Looking for just their third win of the season – and first in more than a month – the team’s first midweek match of the season comes against Charlotte, a team that has been humming under new Head
Following a dispiriting loss to St. Louis in the team’s first-ever game at Citypark, they return to Soldier Field in search of their first goal – and win – in front of home fans since April 6th. The match is the first of two at Soldier Field in an absolutely
Following Saturday’s loss in St. Louis, Fire Head Coach Frank Klopas said “The results haven’t been there, that’s for sure, but for me, it’s early in the season.” It was a statement echoed by team captain Xherdan Shaqiri, who said “I think it’s still early
After a three match homestand that was rendered distinctly anhedonic for hometown fans by the Fire’s inability to score a goal during the stretch, the team is back on the road to face their nearest – and newest – MLS neighbor in St. Louis City, a developing rival that the team
The Fire travel to St. Louis for their first-ever MLS match in town, just over a year after the first-ever match between the two clubs on MLS’s official Rivalry Week. That match, a 2-1 win in the U.S. Open Cup, was the first of Frank
The Fire completed a crucial three game homestand against the struggling New England Revolution, but it was the Fire who left the match looking like the team at the bottom of the conference, losing 1-0 off a goal by Tomás Chancalay. It’s now been 372 minutes since the
Before the start of the Fire’s current three-game homestand, I wrote that the team should be looking for seven points out of the three: Although five would likely put the team high enough in the standings to be in one of the playoff spots, given the homefield advantage,
