📊 Form Guide

Chicago Fire

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Chicago Fire, following on from their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 4-0 US Open Cup triumph versus Detroit City.

For Chicago Fire, the goalscorers were Hugo Cuypers (4'), Omari Glasgow (50') and Maren Haile-Selassie (71'). Darren Smith (35' Own goal) scored for Detroit City.

Matches featuring Chicago Fire have proved to be entertaining ones of late with plenty of scoring anticipated. Over their past half dozen games alone, a grand total of 21 goals have flown in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 9 of those belonging to Chicago Fire. Such a trend isn’t assured to be sustained into this game, though.

Atlanta United

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In their last fixture, Atlanta United drew 1-1 in the MLS tie with Nashville.

In that match, Atlanta United had 37% possession and 6 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Atlanta United was Miguel Almirón (20'). For their opponents, Nashville got 10 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Daniel Lovitz (66') was the scorer for Nashville.

The numbers tell their own story, and Atlanta United have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 12 goals in all. Defensively, Atlanta United have seen their frailties exposed.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head meetings going back to 07/05/2022 shows us that Chicago Fire have won 0 of these & Atlanta United 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 3.

A sum of 17 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 for Men in Red and 12 created by The Five Stripes. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.83.

The last league meeting between these clubs was MLS match day 14 on 28/04/2024 and the score finished Chicago Fire 0-0 Atlanta United.

In that game, Chicago Fire managed 36% possession and 10 shots on goal with 0 on target.

Atlanta United got 18 shots on goal with 5 on target.

The match was refereed by Filip Dujic.

ℹ️ Team News: Chicago Fire

Chase Gasper (Hamstring injury) and David Poreba (Torn ligaments) won’t be available for Chicago Fire boss Gregg Berhalter.

It seems likely that Men in Red will possibly kick off with a 4-3-3 formation for this game and select Jeff Gal, Omari Glasgow, Samuel Rogers, Jack Elliott, Justin Reynolds, Rominigue Kouamé, Djé D'Avilla, Kellyn Acosta, Maren Haile-Selassie, Hugo Cuypers and Jonathan Bamba.

ℹ️ Team News: Atlanta United

We are inclined to think that The Five Stripes seem most likely to begin the game with a 4-2-3-1 lineup using Brad Guzan, Brooks Lennon, Derrick Williams, Luis Abram, Ronald Hernández, Alexey Miranchuk, Mateusz Klich, Saba Lobzhanidze, Miguel Almirón, Ajani Fortune and Emmanuel Latte Lath.

🧠 Prediction

It looks to us like Atlanta United won’t find it easy at all to be getting goals against a Chicago Fire outfit who have the quality to really dictate the terms of this match.

We’re going for a 3-0 margin for Chicago Fire at the end of this one.

Renata Leite, 18:05 10/05/2025