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Despite a crowd of over 26,000, the Fire fell flat to Cincinnati for the first home match of the season. Aaron Boupendza scored in the 39th minute, but after Obinna Nwobodo went studs-up on Brian Gutiérrez in the box, the team was awarded a penalty, which Xherdan Shaqiri stepped
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Amidst a totally chaotic match, the Fire departed from their opening day trip to Philadelphia with a 2-2 stalemate. The team took the lead in the 39th minute via a Brian Gutiérrez banger, but right after halftime Philly piled the pressure on, with Mikael Uhre equalizing in the 55th. Fabian
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With complete control over their fate, the Fire missed out on the playoffs once again after a goal from Julián Fernández in the 64th minute hoisted the hosts into the post-season. Here is a recap of the Fire’s individual performers. *Players are listed in the order they lined up,
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After a 4-1 win against Inter Miami saw the Fire gain control over their own post-season destiny, the team threw it all away after losing 2-0 to Charlotte with one game to go. After Ashley Westwood put the visitors ahead in the 23rd minute, all it took was a Karol
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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