Chicago Fire vs FC Cincinatti Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Chicago Fire

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Chicago Fire will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 1-0 MLS loss in their previous game against Philadelphia Union.

In that match, Chicago Fire had 46% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 2 on target. For their opponents, Philadelphia Union got 14 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. Joaquín Torres (90') scored for Philadelphia Union.

Chicago Fire have been finding it hard to keep clean sheets of late, but they have also managed to score goals themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Chicago Fire have conceded in 6 of them while also scoring in 5 of those matches.

FC Cincinatti

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FC Cincinatti will go into this clash following a 1-0 MLS win as they beat Seattle Sounders FC in their most recent match.

In that match, FC Cincinatti had 49% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for FC Cincinatti was Brenner (63'). Seattle Sounders FC got 12 shots on goal with 1 on target.

During their 6 previous matches, Pat Noonan's FC Cincinatti have turned their attacks into goals 10 times, earning them the goals scored per game average of 1.67.

↔️ Head to head

An examination of their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 25/08/2020 shows us that Chicago Fire have won 3 of these games & FC Cincinatti 2, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

A total of 19 goals were produced between them in this period, with 11 of them from Men in Red and 8 belonging to Cincinatti. The average goals per game has been 3.17.

The previous league contest between these sides was MLS match day 46 on 01/10/2022 and the score finished FC Cincinatti 2-3 Chicago Fire.

On that day, FC Cincinatti had 53% possession and 18 shots at goal with 4 on target. The goals were scored by Luciano Acosta (78') and Brandon Vázquez (89').

For their opponents, Chicago Fire got 12 shots on goal with 6 on target. Jhon Durán (56', 75') and Brian Gutierrez (59') scored.

The match was refereed by Lukasz Szpala.

📋 Team News: Chicago Fire

The Chicago Fire boss Ezra Hendrickson will be grateful not to have any fitness worries whatsoever coming into this game thanks to a fully healthy squad available for selection. Ineligible players who cannot play in this game through suspension are Kei Kamara and Fabian Herbers.

It’s our opinion that Men in Red will possibly use the 4-2-3-1 system, handing starts to Chris Brady, Arnaud Souquet, Carlos Teran, Rafael Czichos, Miguel Navarro, Mauricio Pineda, G. Claudio Gimenez, Brian Gutierrez, Maren Haile-Selassie, Chris Mueller and Kacper Przybylko.

📋 Team News: FC Cincinatti

Owing to a completely healthy group available to select from, the FC Cincinatti boss Pat Noonan has zero fitness worries to report before this game.

We believe FC Cincinatti could decide to elect for a 5-3-2 system with a starting lineup of Roman Celentano, Yerson Mosquera, Matt Miazga, Ian Murphy, Raymon Gaddis, Alvaro Barreal, Obinna Nwobodo, Marco Angulo, Junior Moreno, Brandon Vazquez and Brenner da Silva.

💡 Prediction

Our feeling is that FC Cincinatti and Chicago Fire could well end up finding themselves level here, with both teams capable of netting.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. Therefore, we predict a very even match with a 1-1 score at the end of the 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Peter Guest, 02:28 15/03/2023