It is often said that the middle of an MLS season has little meaning, with no teams working their way in or out of the playoffs – a refrain that is likely to be heard louder this year with an expanded playoff field, but Wednesday’s match against CF Montréal is
The Chicago Fire were at their best under Frank Klopas, and it was enough to earn a well-deserved win over high-flying Nashville SC in front of an excellent crowd at Soldier Field. After the match, we spoke with Head Coach Frank Klopas, goalkeeper Chris Brady, midfielder Fabian Herbers, and forward
Playing at home for the first time in three games, a slightly rotated Fire side hosted red-hot Nashville, ultimately beating the Boys in Gold 1-0 thanks to Fabian Herber’s fourth goal of the season. Fabi scored in the 34th minute after linking up with Maren Haile-Selassie thanks to some
The Chicago Fire began their three-game midsummer homestand on the right note as they stunned seemingly unstoppable Nashville SC, earning a 1-0 win under the bright lights of Soldier Field. A season-high crowd of over 22,000 were in attendance for what will prove to be a memorable night on
The Fire’s last match against Nashville, a deflating 3-0 defeat away from home, was also Ezra Hendrickson’s last. Following the defeat, the then Fire manager was fired as Frank Klopas was handed his duties. Tonight’s match is the Fire’s first home game since the international break,
For the first time in nearly a month, the Fire will play a game in front of a home crowd as they host Nashville SC on Saturday. The game starts a homestand that will see the team play three games at home in a span of eight days – the last
Off the back of two away wins, the Fire headed out to Orlando for the last match of their three-game road trip. Despite positive glimpses here and there, the Fire were by no means the better team in this match. However, several instances of, um, interesting officiating left a bit
Three in a row was too good to be true. Despite a relatively strong performance all things considered, the Chicago Fire’s unlikely winning streak away from home came to an end as they were comfortably defeated 3-1 by Orlando City at Exploria Stadium. In a match in which the
The Fire are in their best form of the season so far after having won their last two games in the league. Coming off of the back of these two important wins against the Portland Timbers and Kansas City Sporting, the Fire will be looking to take all nine points
Following their first back-to-back road wins in a decade, the Fire travel to Orlando City looking for the threepeat away from home - something the team last accomplished in 2009 with a 3-2 victory over the now-defunct Chivas USA. Orlando – currently in 7th place and holding the last “play-off” rather
After what was, in truth, a woeful start to the MLS season, which saw the Fire in 14th out of 15th in the East, the Fire have gotten their second half of the 2023 campaign off to an electric start by securing back-to-back away wins. On Wednesday, the Fire reverted
With the Fire grabbing a mid-week away win over the Portland Timbers, not many Fire fans or MLS viewers in general expected the Chicago to get another win from the remainder of their three-game road trip, but for the first time in over a decade, they reached back-to-back road wins
https://twitter.com/meninred97/status/1672796828947955713?s=20 The Fire’s starting goalkeeper again showed why he’s one of the league’s brightest young talents as he notched his second clean sheet of the season in MLS Matchday 21. Starting for Chicago in Kansas City three days after presiding
Four days after leaving Portland with their first-ever victory against the Timbers, the Fire continued their three-game road swing to face Sporting Kansas City at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas’s eponymous city, looking for their second road win in a row and fourth against a Western Conference foe
Fresh off their second road win of the season – and first since beating Inter Miami on March 25 – the Fire continue their road trip out west, this time facing Sporting Kansas City. A glance at the standings suggests that this is one of those forgettable midseason matchups between two teams
In the matches leading up to the international break, the Fire had been plagued by bad form and were unable to get results both at home and on the road. The team’s last match before the break was their 17th in league play, which marked the halfway point of