Chicago Fire manager R. Wicky looking for three points in Montreal Impact showdown

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Competition: Sat 29.May
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Soldier Field (61500 seats)

Chicago Fire have some catching up to do from their 13th, and the job starts against Montreal Impact. Read more!

Insights:
  • Chicago Fire have the fewest scored goals (4) in Major League Soccer
  • Montreal Impact have the most scored goals in the first half (6) in Major League Soccer

Chicago Fire and Montreal Impact 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.

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1300 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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Chicago Fire form and stats

Overall Major League Soccer stats at home this season for Chicago Fire, who have the fewest scored goals (4) in Major League Soccer, are 1-1-1 (wins-draw-losses).

Chicago's last game was hosting Inter Miami (placed 8th) and winning 1-0. Defender Francisco Calvo got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.65/10. Calvo won 5 of 8 duels. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of R. Wicky when Luka Stojanović scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 59th minute.

Prior to that, an away loss at DC United.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Chicago Fire handle that role? We have found seven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are four wins, three draws and zero defeats.

Chicago Fire are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 3 goals in 3 games. On the other hand, Chicago Fire have conceded 4 goals.

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Montreal Impact form and stats

1-1-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Montreal Impact in their Major League Soccer matches away.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Major League Soccer home defeat versus Cincinnati with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Joel Waterman was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.64. The defender Waterman hit one key pass and won 4 of 5 duels.

Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Atlanta United's place.

Montreal are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is three wins, one draw and three defeats. From a total of seven matches.

Montreal find the net regularly in their away games. 4 goals from 4 away fixtures in the league. 5 goals have been conceded by Montreal in these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: four - two - four (Chicago wins - draws - Montreal Impact wins). As for goals, seven matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Chicago FireL. Stojanović
L. Stojanović
3 goals
Montreal ImpactM. Toye
M. Toye
2 goals
Montreal ImpactB. Johnsen
B. Johnsen
2 goals

Chicago Fire missing players

Montreal Impact missing players

Chicago Fire Montreal Impact
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
6 3 2 Played P 0 4 7
1 1 1 Won W 0 1 2
1 1 0 Drew D 0 1 2
4 1 1 Lost L 0 2 3
4 3 1 Scored S 0 4 9
10 4 2 Conceded C 0 5 9
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 86%
67% 67% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 71%
33% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 25% 43%
33% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 14%
33% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 25% 43%
17% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 29%
50% 33% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 50% 43%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.2 2.3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.2 2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.8 14.7 14 Shots (avg) S ( 0 12.8 13.7
3.7 4 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 3.2 3.9
18% 25% 11% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 31% 33%
Key stats in Major League Soccer this season:
  • Chicago Fire have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Chicago Fire have the fewest scored goals (4) in Major League Soccer
  • Chicago Fire haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Montreal Impact have scored more than double the goals of Chicago Fire.
  • Montreal Impact have the most scored goals in the first half (6) in Major League Soccer
  • Montreal Impact haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 New England 7 4 2 1 10 7 4 4 0 0 7 2 3 0 2 1 3 5 3 14
2 Orlando City 6 3 3 0 7 2 4 2 2 0 5 1 2 1 1 0 2 1 5 12
3 New York City 6 2 2 2 11 6 3 1 1 1 7 3 3 1 1 1 4 3 5 8
4 Atlanta United 5 2 2 1 6 4 2 2 0 0 4 1 3 0 2 1 2 3 2 8
5 Montreal Impact 7 2 2 3 9 9 3 1 1 1 5 4 4 1 1 2 4 5 0 8
6 Columbus Crew 6 2 2 2 5 5 2 1 1 0 3 1 4 1 1 2 2 4 0 8
7 Philadelphia Union 6 2 2 2 5 5 4 1 1 2 3 5 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 8
8 Inter Miami 7 2 2 3 8 10 3 0 1 2 3 6 4 2 1 1 5 4 -2 8
9 Nashville SC 5 1 4 0 6 4 4 1 3 0 6 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 7
10 New York RB 6 2 0 4 8 9 3 2 0 1 5 2 3 0 0 3 3 7 -1 6
11 DC United 6 2 0 4 5 10 3 2 0 1 3 2 3 0 0 3 2 8 -5 6
12 Toronto 6 1 2 3 7 10 2 1 1 0 4 2 4 0 1 3 3 8 -3 5
13 Chicago Fire 6 1 1 4 4 10 3 1 1 1 3 4 3 0 0 3 1 6 -6 4
14 Cincinnati 5 1 1 3 6 14 1 0 0 1 2 3 4 1 1 2 4 11 -8 4

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