📊 Form Guide

Chicago Fire

LWWWWD

Chicago Fire head into this match following a 3-3 MLS draw against FC Cincinatti.

In that game, Chicago Fire had 45% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Chicago Fire, goals were scored by Hugo Cuypers (26', 48'), Philip Zinckernagel (45') and Tah Ange D'Avilla (86' Own goal). FC Cincinnati had 23 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Tom Barlow (42') and Evander (79') scored for FC Cincinatti.

Chicago Fire have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 matches.

They’ve totted up the amount of 10 during that time while also conceding a total of 7.

Sporting Kansas City

WLLLLL 🔻

Following on from tasting defeat last time out to Vancouver Whitecaps in MLS action, Sporting Kansas City and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Sporting Kansas City had 50% possession and 3 attempts at goal with 0 on target. Vancouver Whitecaps got 25 shots on goal with 6 on target. Emmanuel Sabbi (13'), Bruno Caicedo (23') and Thomas Müller (28') scored for Vancouver Whitecaps.

Demonstrating their involvement in eventful matches, the back of the net has been hit 22 times in the prior six games in which Sporting Kansas City have played, yielding an average of 3.67 goals each meeting. Opposition teams have hit 17 of these goals. We will have to see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 07/07/2019 tells us that Chicago Fire have won 2 of them and Sporting Kansas City 3, with the number of drawn results being 1.

In all, 13 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 6 from Men in Red and 7 created by SKC. The average goals per game has been 2.17.

The previous league match featuring the two was MLS match day 28 on 25/06/2023 and the score finished Sporting Kansas City 0-1 Chicago Fire.

On that occasion, Sporting Kansas City had 66% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

For their opponents, Chicago Fire had 12 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Fabian Herbers (47') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Alex Chilowicz.

ℹ️ Team News: Chicago Fire

It looks as if Men in Red should line up in a 4-4-2 system for the game, beginning the first half with Chris Brady, Jonathan Dean, Jack Elliott, Mbekezeli Mbokazi, Andrew Gutman, Philip Zinckernagel, Anton Saletros, Djé D'Avilla, Maren Haile-Selassie, Robin Lod and Jonathan Bamba.

📰 Team News: Sporting Kansas City

It’s our belief that SKC might elect for a 4-3-3 lineup using John Pulskamp, Justin Reynolds, Ethan Bartlow, Diego Borges, Kwaku Agyabeng, Cielo Tschantret, Manu García, Jacob Bartlett, O. Pedro Capemba, Dejan Joveljić and Calvin Harris.

💡 Prediction

It’s likely that Sporting Kansas City will have a difficult task to find the net against a Chicago Fire lineup who look likely to dominate.

We can see a very comprehensive 3-0 margin for Chicago Fire at the end of the 90 minutes.

Andre Moura, 00:01 26/04/2026