With a playoff spot on the line and a record crowd at Soldier Field, the Fire played the best they have all season, beating a Messi-less Inter Miami 4-1 courtesy of braces from Swiss duo Maren Haile-Selassie and Xherdan Shaqiri. Here is a recap of the Fire’s individual performers.
After a miserable midweek performance against the Columbus Crew, the Fire earned a 2-2 draw against the New England Revolution. It looked to be more of the same when New England's Tomás Chancalay scored just 17 minutes in, but on the very next play, Brian Gutiérrez equalized. In
In an absolutely spineless performance, the Fire lost 3-0 to the Columbus Crew courtesy of a Cucho Hernández hattrick within the first 23 minutes, followed up by a Xherdan Shaqiri red card to put the team’s playoff hopes on the brink of dying out. Here is a recap of
After returning from the international break, the Fire headed north to play CF Montréal. Despite a few good opportunities from both teams (mostly Montréal), the game ended in a flat 0-0 draw to keep Chicago out of a playoff spot. Here is a short recap of the Fire’s individual
To a casual fan, it may have looked like Club América was actually the home side, but unfortunately, they were not as their fanbase invaded SeatGeek Stadium for their own use before their beloved team got a 1-0 win over our Chicago Fire due to a Gastón Giménez own-goal in
After coming back to win 3-2 against Minnesota United just four days ago, the Chicago Fire hosted Club Puebla in their final match of the group stage and lost on penalties despite dominating most of the match. After going down 1-0 in the 74th minute, a deflected Xherdan Shaqiri freekick
Playing away at Minnesota for their first match in Group C2 of the Leagues Cup, the Fire endured a fairly boring first half with the Loons which ended at 0-0. The second half was the complete opposite though, proving to make up for the lack of action in the first
Just earlier this week, the Fire beat CF Montréal 3-0 at home, and in this outing, Chicago took three points off of another Canadian side by beating Toronto 1-0 at Soldier Field with formerly out-of-favor Kacper Przybyłko coming off the bench to score in the 90th minute off of a
After taking three points off of previously second-place Nashville FC, the Fire hosted CF Montréal looking to swap places with them in the table in order to get into a solid position for playoff contention. A Brian Gutiérrez goal nine minutes in, paired with another tally from Maren Haile-Selassie two
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
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
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
Following a short rest in fixtures due to the international break, the Fire headed to Portland to play the first in a series of three away games. The Fire got ahead just eight minutes in thanks to a goal from Fabian Herbers, but Franck Boli equalized for the Timbers in
With Frank Klopas electing to keep the Fire lined up in a 3-4-2-1 despite its flaws as of late, surprise, surprise, they lost again! After being vastly outplayed in the first half, Cucho Hernández scored in the 59th minute to put Columbus up 1-0. There was a glimmer of hope
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 proceeded
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