Game week two of the Major League Soccer season and the teams have had a few days to digest the first match. Here's the Atlanta United - Chicago Fire preview:
Atlanta United and Chicago Fire should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Atlanta's stadium, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, has a artifical turf surface. Chicago Fire have grass on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Chicago Fire when playing on artifical turf; 1 win, 5 draws and 6 losses from twelve matches. They have scored 12 goals in these games and conceded 18.
It's time to recharge all electronic entertainment devices for Chicago Fire, who are travelling more than 1100 kilometers to play this game.
Atlanta United form and stats
Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Philadelphia Union are coming to town in three days.
Last season, Atlanta United's league statistics were 18 wins, 4 draws and 12 losses, resulting in a 2nd position in the Major League Soccer. Over these 34 matches they scored 58 goals and conceded 43. Playing at home last season Atlanta United managed 12-3-2 (win-draw-lost) with 36 goals and 14 conceded.
Chicago Fire form and stats
A 3-4 loss hosting New York City before that.
Drawing 2-2 against New England after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager R. Wicky needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result.
Let's have a look at how Chicago Fire performed last season in the Major League Soccer: They landed a 8th position in the league table after playing out 10 victories, 12 draws and 12 defeats. In total they scored 55 and conceded 47 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 2 - drew 5 and lost 10 with 18/29 goals scored/conceded.
Head 2 Head
Numbers for the last eight meetings between these two teams are: four wins for Atlanta United, zero draws and four wins for Chicago Fire. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: four games.Top Goalscorers
  L. Stojanović 1 goals |  R. Berič 1 goals |
Atlanta United missing players
Chicago Fire missing players
| Atlanta United | Chicago Fire | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 100% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 100% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | 0 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 67% |
| Atlanta United | Last season | Chicago Fire | |||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 23 | 13 | Played | P | 11 | 23 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 5 | 8 | ||
| 13 | 7 | Lost | L | 6 | 10 | ||
| 23 | 10 | Scored | S | 10 | 33 | ||
| 30 | 12 | Conceded | C | 21 | 39 | ||
| 91% | 85% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 96% | ||
| 65% | 46% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 82% | 91% | ||
| 43% | 31% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 64% | 70% | ||
| 17% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 36% | 39% | ||
| 9% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 9% | ||
| 48% | 31% | BTTS | BTTS | 73% | 65% | ||
| 26% | 38% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 17% | ||
| 35% | 46% | Failed to Score | F T | 27% | 22% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.9 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.8 | 1.8 | ||
| 3 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 9.6 | 9.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.7 | 12.6 | ||
| 3.3 | 3.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.1 | ||
| 30% | 23% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 26% | 35% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Montreal Impact | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | DC United | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 3 | Chicago Fire | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Cincinnati | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Nashville SC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | New England | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Atlanta United | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | Orlando City | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | New York City | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | New York RB | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | Toronto | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 0 |