Faithful supporters at Soldier Field haven’t enjoyed many victories this season, with Chicago Fire decaying in the 12th position. The opposing Real Salt Lake will attempt to defend their higher league spot in this one.
- Chicago Fire have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Real Salt Lake have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
These are active days for the team playing at home, as they had a match only three days ago in the Major League Soccer. That game was an away game at Cincinnati, so at least Chicago are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2200 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
Chicago Fire form and stats
The story so far in the Major League Soccer for Chicago Fire at their home stadium (Soldier Field) is 6 wins, 5 draws and 5 defeats.
It's back home for Chicago, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Cincinnati away with the result 4-3. Luka Stojanović, Robert Berić (2) and Álvaro Medrán found the net in that victory. As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today? Manager R. Wicky felt very clever after Luka Stojanović scored the winning goal against Cincinnati, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 86th minute. A late climax in the match against Cincinnati as the winning goal came three minutes into overtime; scored by Luka Stojanović. Robert Berić, who plays in attack, was the declared top player for the team in that game, earning a rating of 8.23 (out of 10). Berić scored two goals.
Preceding that game was the away draw at New England that finished 2-2.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Chicago have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found nine games) they have won six times, drawn two and lost one.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Chicago as they are travelling to their away game against New York City in the Major League Soccer. That match is four days after this one.
Chicago are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 22 goals in 16 games. Chicago have conceded 18 in these home matches.
Real Salt Lake form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Real Salt Lake so far with only 11 points returning home. The records show 3-2-9 (win-draw-lose). The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Salt have lost on their last two travels.
Impressive finishing from Damir Kreilach, Rubio Rubin and Anderson Julio secured the home win 3-1 against Colorado Rapids in their previous game. Damir Kreilach, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 8.95. Kreilach scored one goal, signed up for two assists, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 32 successful passes (of 37 total).
Preceding that game, the 1-2 loss visiting Austin's place.We have checked recent matches where Salt have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 16 games were three victories, four draws and nine defeats.
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Major League Soccer trip to Dallas.
The travelling fans enjoy Real Salt Lake's attacking play in away games, having scored 22 goals in 14 league matches away. For Salt, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Chicago two wins, four draws and Real Salt Lake four victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  D. Kreilach 14 goals |   L. Stojanović 8 goals | A. Julio Santos 8 goals |
Chicago Fire missing players
Real Salt Lake missing players
| Chicago Fire | Real Salt Lake | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 31 | 16 | 6 | Played | P | 0 | 14 | 29 |
| 8 | 6 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 3 | 12 |
| 7 | 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 16 | 5 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 9 | 11 |
| 35 | 22 | 9 | Scored | S | 0 | 22 | 48 |
| 51 | 18 | 4 | Conceded | C | 0 | 31 | 45 |
| 94% | 88% | 83% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 93% | 93% |
| 71% | 62% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 86% | 79% |
| 48% | 50% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 86% | 72% |
| 35% | 31% | 17% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 50% | 41% |
| 16% | 12% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 36% | 21% |
| 45% | 44% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 79% | 72% |
| 23% | 38% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 14% | 21% |
| 39% | 31% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 14% | 14% |
| 5.4 | 6.2 | 4.2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.9 | 5.1 |
| 5.3 | 4.9 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 7.5 | 6.5 |
| 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.9 | 2.3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 14 | 15.9 | 12.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 0 | 12.5 | 12.9 |
| 4.6 | 5.5 | 4.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 0 | 4.7 | 4.8 |
| 24% | 25% | 36% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 33% | 35% |
- Chicago Fire have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Real Salt Lake have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
| 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 | 31 | 21 | 6 | 4 | 62 | 38 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 30 | 17 | 16 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 32 | 21 | 24 | 69 |
| 2 | Nashville SC | 30 | 11 | 16 | 3 | 47 | 27 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 34 | 17 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 20 | 49 |
| 3 | Philadelphia Union | 30 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 42 | 32 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 20 | 22 | 10 | 46 |
| 4 | Orlando City | 30 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 43 | 42 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 26 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 17 | 27 | 1 | 46 |
| 5 | Atlanta United | 30 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 40 | 34 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 22 | 6 | 43 |
| 6 | Montreal Impact | 30 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 43 | 40 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 27 | 21 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 19 | 3 | 42 |
| 7 | New York City | 30 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 45 | 34 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 29 | 12 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 22 | 11 | 41 |
| 8 | DC United | 30 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 51 | 44 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 30 | 14 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 21 | 30 | 7 | 41 |
| 9 | New York RB | 29 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 35 | 30 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 17 | 19 | 5 | 40 |
| 10 | Columbus Crew | 30 | 10 | 8 | 12 | 37 | 40 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 18 | 16 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 22 | -3 | 38 |
| 11 | Inter Miami | 30 | 10 | 5 | 15 | 28 | 47 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 31 | 15 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 16 | -19 | 35 |
| 12 | Chicago Fire | 31 | 8 | 7 | 16 | 35 | 51 | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 22 | 18 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 33 | -16 | 31 |
| 13 | Toronto | 30 | 6 | 7 | 17 | 34 | 59 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 21 | 16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 38 | -25 | 25 |
| 14 | Cincinnati | 30 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 32 | 59 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 21 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 38 | -27 | 20 |