After what has ultimately been an abysmal start to the MLS season, with the team sitting second to bottom in the East, the cup looked like the Fire’s best shot at any type of silverware this campaign. Knowing this, the Fire fielded a full-strength XI in their newfound
After an exciting first half which saw the Houston Dynamo go up 2-0 before Arnaud Souquet headed home to bring some life back into the Fire, an extremely controversial sequence of two potential penalties not being granted to the Fire saw the team’s mentality completely collapse as they
Chicago Fire 1, Houston Dynamo 4. Few would have expected that scoreline when they shuffled into SeatGeek Stadium tonight and absolutely no one wanted to believe it was even possible. Yet, it happened. And the Chicago Fire are out of the U.S. Open Cup at the quarterfinal stage. Frank
Coming off of the back of a 1-0 loss in Cincinnati, the Fire will be looking to return to winning ways in what is arguably the team’s most important match of the season thus far. The cup has obviously been made a priority for the team after seeing
Both the Chicago Fire and Houston Dynamo entered the U.S. Open Cup with a simple mission: Win six games and hoist a trophy. Both clubs are halfway to that mark, but only one will get a fourth win as the Fire host Houston Tuesday evening at SeatGeek Stadium. Both
Both teams were extremely busy in the month of May, and after playing fifteen matches in the month combined, Chicago and Cincinnati rotated several key players out of their starting XI. For Chicago, the most notable omissions from the starting lineup were Xherdan Shaqiri, Kei Kamara, Maren Haile-Selassie, Rafael
Fielding the most rotated side Fire fans have seen so far this season, getting a result in a stadium that has only seen victories seemed to be asking too much for a team with three league wins this season. With Klopas electing to rotate, that did not stop a bit
https://twitter.com/meninred97/status/1665171608778973185?s=20 In a rotated Fire lineup, Aceves started while the starting left wing-back, Miguel Navarro, was rested. The new arrival from Mexico showed a lot of quality against the conference’s best team in the league and proved to Miggy that he
So near, yet so far. The Chicago Fire showed resilience and defensive solidity to battle league-leading FC Cincinnati on the road, but ultimately came up just short in a 1-0 loss. Cincinnati – who had won every game at home in 2023 heading into tonight – are a course for
It is really a tale of two drastically different teams as the Fire come into this match as massive underdogs. Although both Midwestern outfits have qualified for the Round of 16 in the U.S. Open Cup, FC Cincinnati have won five of their last five league games, whereas the
Following a midweek clash in Toronto that saw the Fire get a point on the road for a second consecutive time via a 0-0 draw, the team heads to Cincinnati. The match will conclude the regular season series against the Garys, having played them to a 3-3 draw
The Fire played their first scoreless draw of the season in a match where neither team looked particularly hungry to score. The team did have to shepherd its way through multiple possible concussions (and it started without Mauricio Pineda, already under the concussion protocol), and substitutions, starting with GK Spencer
https://twitter.com/meninred97/status/1664085804732350464?s=20 The 19-year-old goalkeeper saw just 25 minutes of action before he was eventually subbed off at the 30th minute with blood streaming down his face. After making an initial stop from a close-range effort, the teenager sprang upon the
The goals had to stop eventually. After numerous high-scoring matches in recent weeks, the Chicago Fire had to settle for a stale 0-0 draw with Toronto FC, as they played their Canadian opposition to a defensive stalemate at BMO Field. Neither team could ever catch much momentum as
Off of the back of two consecutive 3-3 draws in MLS play, the Chicago Fire will be looking to take all three points against Toronto. Both sides have struggled in the first half of this MLS campaign and have just three wins each. The two teams sit level on
The Fire’s packed schedule continues as they face Toronto FC in the second match of a three-game road swing. Coming off of a disappointing draw against New England – one that saw the team concede three times while ahead, including giving up the tying goal late - the match presents