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Besides the wide range of players being disciplined coincidentally during the first half of rivalry week, there were plenty of exciting matches across both halves of Major League Soccer. Montréal came out victorious in the Canadian Classique, Charlotte upset Atlanta, Inter Miami take points off of New England, and Sporting
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The Chicago Fire dominated St. Louis CITY in a highly-anticipated matchup today and ultimately won 1-0 over their regional rivals. Rafa Czichos' first half goal proved to be the difference between the two teams, and sent St. Louis' large traveling contingent back down the I-55 in a sad
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Led by goals from Maren Haile-Selassie and Fabian Herbers, the Fire led Saint Louis CITY out the backdoor of the Lamar Hunt Open Cup in Frank Klopas’ first match as the Fire’s manager this season. The Chicago Fire performed extremely well in defense across both halves, also creating plenty
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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
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The Fire faced off against Nashville away with a notably rotated side and left the Music City with zero points and an injured Rafael Czichos after Hany Muhktar scored a hattrick. Ezra Hendrickson spiced it up and started the team in a 3-4-1-2, but after the injury to Czichos, Hendrickson
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It is crazy to think that Major League Soccer’s regular season is already a third of the way completed, and it still isn’t warm out in Chicago. Besides that, matchday ten saw a matchup between the top two teams in the East, Portland get another big win, Nashville
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Would you look at that, Ezra Hendrickson’s Fire dropped points from a leading position once again! After a shaky start to the match, Kei Kamara would score a thunderous header from an Arnaud Souquet cross in the 34th minute to go up 1-0. The Fire never would assert dominance
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In their opening match in the U.S. Open Cup, the Fire fielded a moderately rotated side that would achieve a joyous 3-0 victory over the Chicago House with 67.4% possession and 27 total shots taken. While the result should be taken lightly, the Fire never showed any signs
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The ninth week of games was tamer than some of its predecessors, but there were still plenty of notable results from across both conferences. Unfortunately, as bad as some other teams have been this season, it is Sporting Kansas City is the last team remaining in the league without a
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This match was a rollercoaster of emotions for Fire fans, with the ultimate destination being one that is all too familiar. After 13 minutes into the first half, Atlanta forward Georgios Giakoumakis would score the opener, but the Fire would gain control of the match for large stretches of play
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In the eighth week of Major League Soccer action, there was plenty of notable action across both conferences and some results that were extremely surprising to fans across the league. Here is a recap of some of matchday eight’s most noticeable results. Cincinnati’s Undefeated Run Gets Snapped I
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Theoretically, the Fire could have been in fifth place in the Eastern Conference if they had held the 2-0 scoreline they achieved after a clunky Maren Haile-Selassie tap-in and freak own-goal from Nathan Harriel. The Fire would prove continuously wasteful in front of goal, and after Miguel Ángel Navarro gave