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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Frank Klopas elected to field a heavily rotated side in his new favorite three-back experiment on the Fire’s field trip to Foxborough to take on the New England Revolution. After an early Georgios Koutsias finish and an own goal from New England, the Revs came back to set the
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After the Fire’s dramatic 3-3 draw against Atlanta United at the weekend, Frank Klopas took the fight to Austin by making significant tactical changes looking to catch Josh Wolff off-guard. The Fire appeared to line up in their typical 4-2-3-1 but quickly shifted into a 5-2-3, which worked in
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Despite being reduced to ten men just 26 minutes into the match because of a controversial second yellow card issued to Federico Navarro, the Fire and Atlanta locked horns to hash out a 3-3 scoreline. Both teams took the lead on separate occasions, and Atlanta even had a player sent