Here are both sets of likely teams plus player news for Thursday’s forthcoming MLS match.
Chicago Fire will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 0-2 MLS defeat in their last game at the hands of el Nashville. It’s our opinion that Men in Red may well use the 4-3-3 system for the game, handing starts to Jeff Gal, Jonathan Dean, Omar Gonzalez, Jack Elliott, Andrew Gutman, Brian Gutierrez, Mauricio Pineda, Sergio Oregel, Maren Haile-Selassie, Hugo Cuypers y Jonathan Bamba.
Carlos Terán y David Poreba will not be able to play for Chicago Fire manager Gregg Berhalter.
How Chicago Fire might line up versus Philadelphia Union
Philadelphia Union will go into this encounter after a 2-1 MLS win against el Charlotte FC in their previous game. We are inclined to think that The U could decide to utilise a 4-4-2 formation, settling for Andrew Rick, Olivier Mbaizo, Jakob Glesnes, Olwethu Makhanya, Kai Wagner, Alejandro Bedoya, Jesús Bueno, Jovan Lukic, Ben Bender, Bruno Damiani y Indiana Vassilev.
From a largely full-strength group, there’s only the sole fitness issue for the Philadelphia Union boss Bradley Carnell to be concerned with. Ian Glavinovich (Knee injury) misses out for this game.
Probable Philadelphia Union team
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