Match Coverage
Until their victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps in 2022, Fire had never won in Cascadia. In 2023, the team notched its first-ever victory in Portland over the Timbers. With Saturday’s test in Seattle against the Sounders, they have a chance to complete a set of away victories over all
Match Coverage
On average across the league, MLS teams win about half their games at home and about a quarter on the road, with draws filling in the rest. The Fire are slightly underperforming the road average – it took until their eighth road game of the season for the team to get
Match Coverage
For the second year in a row, the Fire head to Orlando early in the second half of the season after winning their previous two games. Last year, the team had won its previous two games on the road going into the match, the first time in a decade the
Match Coverage
The Fire entered the international break on a three game undefeated streak and finished the first half of the season with a flourish in the form of a win over the L.A. Galaxy. Despite the results, the team is actually closer to the bottom of the standings than they
Match Coverage
The Fire are back in action following a week off and the team will hope to pick up right where they left off, with a win against the L.A. Galaxy ending the first half of the Fire’s season. The team starts a three game road swing in Toronto,
Match Coverage
The Fire have one more chance before the international break – and the halfway point of their season – to find their third win of the season, but to do so, they’ll have to get past an L.A. Galaxy team that went from second last in the Western Conference in
Match Coverage
As the Fire host the L.A. Galaxy at the halfway mark of their season, the team finds itself exploring the depths of soccer purgatory: On a winless streak that now stretches to nine matches, just two shy of the team’s all-time record, but also one game shy of
Match Coverage
With two games before the team closes the books on the first half of the season, the Fire look for their third win against Orlando City, a team that many picked to finish at or near the top of the Eastern Conference and compete for hardware but who have fallen
Match Coverage
For the third match in a row, the Fire face a team with the series in near balance, this time at home against Orlando City, a team who came into 2024 with aspirations after a high-flying 2023 season but who have instead fallen firmly back to earth. The Fire will
Match Coverage
In the main match preview, I noted that D.C. has the second longest active playoff drought in the league, after the Fire, and in trying to get back to the postseason, they essentially pursued opposite strategies: The Fire made more changes to the squad, particularly at the top end,
Match Coverage
With the Fire’s season on the ropes and the team stuck in 14th place out of 15 teams in the MLS Eastern Conference – and 28th out of 29 teams overall – the Fire travel to the nation’s capital looking for a spark that has long eluded the team as
Match Coverage
After the loss in St. Louis, Frank Klopas and Xherdan Shaqiri both mentioned that it was still “early” in the season, causing me to do a bit of math. With two matches coming up that week, if the Fire won both, they’d have to be a slightly-better-than-average MLS team