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Opposition Report: St. Louis CITY

Opposition Report: St. Louis CITY

For the second time in less than a week, the Chicago Fire are gearing up to take on a regional rival in MLS expansion team St. Louis CITY. While the Fire have had a frustrating start to the season and currently sit 14th place in the East, St. Louis has

Fire to face Austin FC in U.S. Open Cup Round of 16

Fire to face Austin FC in U.S. Open Cup Round of 16

UPDATE: The match will be held at Q2 Stadium in Austin, TX on Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 8PM CT. The Chicago Fire’s next US Open Cup match will be at away against Austin FC, and is the first-ever competitive matchup between the two teams, having only faced each

Chicago Fire 2, St. Louis CITY 1 | The Tactics Board

Chicago Fire 2, St. Louis CITY 1 | The Tactics Board

After the 3-0 embarrassment in Nashville and all of the ensuing drama that followed the match, the Fire came out firing on all cylinders for their new interim manager and opened up the scoring just three minutes into the match through Maren Haile-Selassie. Ezra Hendrickson’s successor, Frank Klopas, lined

Double Take: Lineup Choices Against St. Louis CITY

Double Take: Lineup Choices Against St. Louis CITY

I don’t know if new interim Head Coach Frank Klopas or anyone else on the Fire coaching staff has a copy of Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, the seminal work by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern which laid out an approach for the rigorous study of zero-sum

Around the League: Matchday 11

Around the League: Matchday 11

In truly exciting fashion, there were only two games on matchday eleven that had a goal or less, not including the canceled FC Dallas versus Saint Louis CITY. LAFC finally lost (but stay first in the power rankings), the Galaxy were haunted by Kevin Cabral and the Rapids, Josef Martínez

Heitz Headlines "Spicy" Press Conference as Klopas reintroduced

Heitz Headlines "Spicy" Press Conference as Klopas reintroduced

The three-and-a-half turbulent years of the Georg Heitz era at the Chicago Fire received their latest landmark moment this morning with the firing of head coach Ezra Hendrickson, and questions surrounding the Swiss sporting director’s future took center stage at today’s press conference. “We were trying to analyze