Major League Soccer match prediction and preview for New England vs Chicago Fire clash

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Competition: USA Major League Soccer
Date: Sat 24.August
Match begins: 23:30 (UTC)
Venue: Gillette Stadium (68756 seats)

With their 2 point advantage in the league table, New England fans are hoping to see their team collect maximum points from this game against Chicago Fire.

This should be an interesting game with lots of spark and energy as both teams are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

One slightly interesting match fact is that this game is played on artificial turf and that the visiting Chicago Fire have a different surface at their stadium (grass). The impact of this is hard to measure exactly, but the visitors stats on artificial turf is 2-4-4 (win-draw-loss) from ten matches. Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 1500 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

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New England form and stats

6-2-5 (win-draw-lost) are the numbers at home for New England so far this season.

New England manager B. Arena and his team return home after a 1-1 draw away versus New York RB in the Major League Soccer. 3-3 away at Seattle Sounders before that.

New England are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home, having created 18 goals in 13 matches. 17 goals have been conceded.

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Chicago Fire form and stats

Chicago Fire, who have the fewest points (6) away in Major League Soccer, have only collected 6 points from their away games after 1-3-9 (13 played).

Chicago Fire won their last game, 2-0 versus Philadelphia Union played at home. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Portland Timbers wasn't a success with a 2-3 loss.

The visitors have scored 11 goals from 13 away games, an average of less than one per game. Chicago Fire have conceded 24 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Chicago Fire - New England 5-0. Last ten meetings between the teams: New England won 3, Chicago Fire won 5 and 2 draws. 7 games with over 2,5 goals, 3 matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

N. Nikolić
11 goals
C. Sapong
10 goals / 1 assists
Carles Gil
9 goals / 10 assists

New England missing players

Chicago Fire missing players

New England Chicago Fire
Total Home Home vs low Statistic Away vs mid Away Total
26 13 3 Played 2 13 28
9 6 0 Won 0 1 8
8 2 0 Drew 1 3 9
9 5 3 Lost 1 9 11
38 18 0 Scored 3 11 42
45 17 7 Conceded 5 24 40
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 100% 92% 93%
88% 92% 100% Over 1.5 100% 62% 75%
54% 46% 33% Over 2.5 100% 46% 46%
35% 23% 0% Over 3.5 100% 38% 39%
23% 8% 0% Over 4.5 0% 23% 29%
58% 46% 0% BTTS 100% 46% 57%
15% 15% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 15% 25%
31% 38% 100% Failed To Score 0% 46% 25%
 
4.2 5.2 5 Corners For (avg) 4.5 3.8 4.5
5 4.8 2.7 Corners Against (avg) 4.5 5.9 4.5
2.1 1.9 1.7 Yellow Cards (avg) 2.5 2.2 1.8
5 1 0 Red Cards 0 1 3
Key stats this season:
  • Chicago Fire have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Chicago Fire have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • New England have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • New England haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

New England
All US Open Cup Mobile Mini Sun Cup Major League Soccer Club Friendlies
All Home Away
21-07-19 MLS Cincinnati 0 - 2 New England
27-07-19 MLS New England 4 - 1 Orlando City
03-08-19 MLS New England 0 - 2 Los Angeles FC
10-08-19 MLS Seattle Sounders 3 - 3 New England
17-08-19 MLS New York RB 1 - 1 New England
24-08-19 MLS New England 23:30 Chicago Fire
31-08-19 MLS New England 23:30 Toronto
07-09-19 MLS New York City 19:30 New England
14-09-19 MLS Orlando City 23:30 New England
21-09-19 MLS New England 23:30 Real Salt Lake
Chicago Fire
All US Open Cup Major League Soccer Carolina Challenge Cup Club Friendlies
All Home Away
28-07-19 MLS Chicago Fire 0 - 0 DC United
04-08-19 MLS Houston Dynamo 0 - 1 Chicago Fire
11-08-19 MLS Chicago Fire 3 - 2 Montreal Impact
15-08-19 MLS Portland Timbers 3 - 2 Chicago Fire
18-08-19 MLS Chicago Fire 2 - 0 Philadelphia Union
24-08-19 MLS New England 23:30 Chicago Fire
31-08-19 MLS Columbus Crew 23:30 Chicago Fire
14-09-19 MLS Chicago Fire 19:30 Dallas
21-09-19 MLS Cincinnati 23:30 Chicago Fire
29-09-19 MLS Chicago Fire 21:00 Toronto

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Philadelphia Union 27 13 6 8 48 40 13 8 3 2 28 14 14 5 3 6 20 26 8 45
2 Atlanta United 25 13 3 9 43 30 14 10 3 1 29 9 11 3 0 8 14 21 13 42
3 New York City 24 11 8 5 45 32 11 6 4 1 22 11 13 5 4 4 23 21 13 41
4 DC United 27 10 9 8 34 33 14 6 5 3 22 20 13 4 4 5 12 13 1 39
5 New York RB 26 11 5 10 44 39 14 8 2 4 27 16 12 3 3 6 17 23 5 38
6 New England 26 9 8 9 38 45 13 6 2 5 18 17 13 3 6 4 20 28 -7 35
7 Orlando City 27 9 7 11 35 35 13 6 1 6 19 18 14 3 6 5 16 17 0 34
8 Toronto 26 9 7 10 41 43 14 6 4 4 28 23 12 3 3 6 13 20 -2 34
9 Montreal Impact 27 10 4 13 39 50 12 6 2 4 17 16 15 4 2 9 22 34 -11 34
10 Chicago Fire 28 8 9 11 42 40 15 7 6 2 31 16 13 1 3 9 11 24 2 33
11 Columbus Crew 27 7 6 14 29 41 15 5 4 6 18 21 12 2 2 8 11 20 -12 27
12 Cincinnati 26 5 3 18 26 61 12 3 1 8 12 25 14 2 2 10 14 36 -35 18

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