RSL and Fire happy with scoreless draw
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. ● The Chicago Fire and Real Salt Lake played to a staid, 0-0 draw at Toyota Park on Wednesday night, with neither side conceding much in the way of chances and both teams showcasing their defensive discipline. Marco Pappa was the only Fire player to force a stop out of Reynish, as [...]
Stoppage time heroics Chicago Fire
CARSON, Calif. ● Marco Pappa’s stoppage time heroics proved the difference for Chicago as the visiting Fire earned a late 2-1 victory over Chivas USA on Friday. Pappa lashed home shot from the edge of the arc that blew past Chivas goalkeeper Dan Kennedy in the second minute of stoppage time to steal three [...]
MLS fines Sounders’ Eddie Johnson
SEATTLE, Wa. ● A day after the Fire’s Frank Klopas and Jalil Anibaba learned their punishments for their roles in a postgame dust-up between Chicago and Seattle, the MLS Disciplinary Committee fined Sounders forward Eddie Johnson an undisclosed amount for making an inappropriate gesture directed at fans as he was leaving the field [...]
Sounders find their ‘mojo’
BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. – After scoring just one goal in their last three games, the Seattle Sounders found their goalscoring shoes on Saturday, capitalizing on a deflection and a bobble from Chicago Fire players to notch a 2-1 win at Toyota Park. The Fire are now winless in their seven games against Seattle. The Sounders went [...]
Wild win Fire over hapless TFC
TORONTO, Ontario ● A pair of teams that have had trouble scoring in 2012 produced a shootout on Saturday, as the Chicago Fire defeated Toronto FC 3-2 before 19,255 at BMO Field. The Fire made Patrick Nyarko’s 58th-minute tally stand up as the game-winner despite a furious second half rally from the hosts. That [...]
Chicago Fire welcomes Chris Rolfe back home
CHICAGO, Ill ● Last week’s MLS program was a wash for Chicago Fire. The long awaited fourth match of the season against the Houston Dynamo was called off after just over an hour due to lightning storms. Enough was played to have the fixture be official and so it ended anticlimactically as a [...]
Post not Impact’s friend
MONTREAL – The clock reads 94:45 and, for a second, 58,912 people hold their breath collectively. Impact left back Josh Gardner, from what appears to be nearly midfield, runs full speed toward a loose ball. He cocks his left foot and leather connects with leather. As if in slow motion, the ball leaves Gardner’s boot, [...]
