FC Cincinatti vs Chicago Fire Live Stream, Predictions (Jul 05)

📏 Form Guide

FC Cincinatti

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FC Cincinatti will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 1-2 MLS success vs Orlando City.

In that match, FC Cincinatti had 41% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for FC Cincinatti was Evander (45', 74'). Orlando City got 17 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Marco Pašalić (87') scored for Orlando City.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games that FC Cincinatti have shown defensive steel. The facts show that FC Cincinatti have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 11 goals during that time.

Chicago Fire

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Chicago Fire will come into the meeting following on from a 3-2 MLS win as they beat Charlotte FC in their previous match.

In that game, Chicago Fire managed 56% possession and 12 shots at goal with 5 on target. For Chicago Fire, the goalscorers were Philip Zinckernagel (23'), Brian Gutiérrez (25') and Hugo Cuypers (33'). Charlotte FC had 8 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Biel (56') and Idan Toklomati (59') scored for Charlotte FC.

Illustrating their penchant for productive encounters, the back of the net has been hit 24 times in the last 6 matches in which Chicago Fire have taken to the field, making it an average of 4 goals for each clash. Opposition teams have hit 10 from this total. Historical results aside, we will just have to wait and see whether that pattern will be replicated in this next match or not.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 01/10/2022 shows us that FC Cincinatti have won 3 of these and Chicago Fire 2, with the tally of draws being 1.

A sum of 21 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 11 of them from Cincinatti and 10 being from Men in Red. That’s an average goals per game of 3.5.

The last league fixture between the two was MLS match day 13 on 20/04/2025 and the score finished Chicago Fire 2-3 FC Cincinatti.

On that occasion, Chicago Fire had 57% possession and 18 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. The goalscorers were Hugo Cuypers (31') and Brian Gutiérrez (85').

FC Cincinatti had 14 shots at goal with 9 on target. Evander (9', 71') and Kévin Denkey (42') scored.

The referee was Lorenzo Hernandez.

📰 Team News: FC Cincinatti

It’s our opinion that FC Cincinatti could go for a 3-5-2 formation for the game featuring Roman Celentano, Gilberto Flores, Matthew Miazga, Teenage Hadebe, DeAndre Yedlin, Pavel Bucha, Evander, Brian Anunga, Lukas Engel, Gerardo Valenzuela and Kévin Denkey.

🗞️ Team News: Chicago Fire

Chicago Fire boss Gregg Berhalter has multiple availability issues to deal with. Carlos Terán (Hamstring injury) and David Poreba (Torn ligaments) are those who can’t be considered.

From our viewpoint, Men in Red might play in a 4-3-3 lineup, starting Jeff Gal, Jonathan Dean, Samuel Rogers, Jack Elliott, Andrew Gutman, Brian Gutierrez, Mauricio Pineda, Sergio Oregel, Philip Zinckernagel, Hugo Cuypers and Jonathan Bamba.

✨ Prediction

We feel that Chicago Fire will surely be able to break down this FC Cincinatti outfit, however that probably won’t quite prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We reckon that it will be a tight encounter finishing with a 2-1 advantage for FC Cincinatti at the end of this one. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

📖 ⚽️ What are the top odds for the game?

Turning to the betting odds on the win-draw-win market, the win for FC Cincinatti is available for 1.8, a bet on a draw is 4.1 and betting on the winning team to be Chicago Fire can be had at 3.7. These are the top prices available at this very moment.

Renata Leite, 20:00 01/07/2025