Philadelphia Union vs Chicago Fire Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Philadelphia Union

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Philadelphia Union go into this game following a 0-0 CONCACAF Champions League stalemate vs Alianza.

Jim Curtin's Philadelphia Union have seen rewards for their attempts on goal 11 times over their last six outings. Conversely, the number of goals that have been scored against them in those same fixtures stands at 7.

Chicago Fire

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In the game prior to this, Chicago Fire drew 1-1 in the MLS match with New York City FC.

In that match, Chicago Fire managed 51% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 1 of them on target. The only player to score for Chicago Fire was Fabian Herbers (75'). At the other end, New York City FC had 9 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Gabriel Pereira (39') scored for New York City FC.

Demonstrating their bias toward productive encounters, we’ve had goals 23 times in the last 6 matches in which Chicago Fire have played, yielding an average of 3.83 goals per meeting. Opposition teams have managed 11 of those goals. Such a pattern isn’t assured to be carried forward into this game, of course.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their most recent head-to-head clashes stretching back to 28/10/2020 shows us that Philadelphia Union have won 3 of these and Chicago Fire 1, with the tally of draws being 2.

In all, 19 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 12 from The U and 7 for Men in Red. That is an average goals per game value of 3.17.

The previous league meeting between these clubs was MLS match day 35 on 13/08/2022 when the final score was Philadelphia Union 4-1 Chicago Fire.

In that game, Philadelphia Union managed 44% possession and 17 attempts on goal with 7 on target. The goals were scored by Dániel Gazdag (16'), Jack Elliott (37'), Julián Carranza (53') and Cory Burke (82').

Chicago Fire had 13 shots on goal with 7 on target. Chris Mueller (49') was the scorer.

The referee was Ismail Elfath.

ℹ️ Team News: Philadelphia Union

The Philadelphia Union manager Jim Curtin will be grateful to have no fitness worries to speak of before this match thanks to a completely healthy group ready to go.

We are thinking that The U should employ a 4-1-2-1-2 formation this time and select Andre Blake, Olivier Mbaizo, Jakob Glesnes, Jack Elliott, Kai Wagner, Alejandro Bedoya, Jose Andres Martinez, Leon Flach, Daniel Gazdag, Julian Carranza and Mikael Uhre.

📰 Team News: Chicago Fire

From our viewpoint, Men in Red seem likely to make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation using Chris Brady, Arnaud Souquet, Carlos Teran, Rafael Czichos, Miguel Navarro, G. Claudio Gimenez, Kendall Burks, Fabian Herbers, Xherdan Shaqiri, Kei Ansu Kamara and Kacper Przybylko.

💭 Prediction

It looks to us that Philadelphia Union can and should be able to create a good number of chances & successful shots on target.

Conversely, Chicago Fire will not find it easy to get a goal of their own although we do see them hitting back at some stage, too.

We’re predicting a decent 3-1 victory for Philadelphia Union at full-time.

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

Andre Moura, 02:24 08/03/2023