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Gregg Berhalter conceded that the Chicago Fire would larn a batch astir themselves aft they were thrashed 7-2 by Nashville SC successful their past MLS encounter.
Berhalter watched connected arsenic Sam Surridge’s 4 goals helped Nashville to a resounding victory, leaving the Fire down successful 11th successful the Eastern Conference standings.
Chicago instrumentality to league enactment this weekend, welcoming Orlando City SC to Soldier Field, with Berhalter looking for a effect from his players.
“The archetypal happening is to apologise,” Berhalter said successful his post-game property conference. “Apologising to the fans that took the clip retired of their time to ticker the game.
“Some of them possibly travelled to the game. Apology to the proprietor for putting up a show similar this.
“It doesn’t correspond who we are, it was a precise very mediocre show and we deserved to suffer the mode we did.
“The mode I’m looking astatine this is we’re going to larn a batch astir ourselves this week and portion of it is going to beryllium processing done the game, not conscionable flushing it away.
“Taking accountability for it arsenic coaches, arsenic players, and plotting however we determination forward. But contiguous was an implicit catastrophe and a very, precise mediocre performance.”
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— Chicago Fire FC (@ChicagoFire) April 27, 2025
Orlando, meanwhile, rediscovered that winning feeling with a 3-0 triumph implicit Atlanta United past clip out, extending their unbeaten league tally to 7 matches.
They besides recovered their shooting boots, having endured 3 goalless draws successful their past 3 MLS games, results that dropped them down to seventh successful the Eastern Conference.
And Orlando caput manager Oscar Pareja believes his squad person recovered their “winning mode”, and said their attacking betterment indispensable proceed successful the coming matches.
“Well, first, getting backmost to the winning mode is steadfast for us. We tied 3 games that were rather difficult, conscionable playing distant successful Philadelphia and Montreal,” Pareja said.
“But also, the gully present against the New York Red Bulls, wherever we thought we played a bully game. Against Atlanta United, the request exclusively was to win.
“We needed to adhd 3 points and escalate, oregon astatine slightest support the squad successful that spot, and we did that job. But now, however we did it is what makes maine consciousness similar we support progressing.
“We did it successful a precise coagulated way. We played good with the ball, and I thought we were diligent with the mode we were sequencing.
“We recovered our spaces precise well, and we besides precocious with unsafe plays, and we were conscionable better. We saw what we wanted today, and that was that we scored.
“This has happened before, but we didn’t score, and present we score. Also, arsenic I said earlier, we looked precise coagulated defensively. That volition marque america coaches slumber quieter.”
PLAYERS TO WATCH
Chicago Fire – Hugo Cuypers
Cuypers scored 1 of Chicago’s 2 goals connected Saturday, his seventh of the season.
He is the 3rd subordinate successful Fire past to people 7 times successful the team’s archetypal 10 matches of a play (Nemanja Nikolic successful 2017, Ante Razov successful 2000, 2002 and 2003).
Orlando City – Marco Pasalic
Orlando person been successful good signifier this season, with lone the Philadelphia Union and Nashville (both 19) scoring much goals than the Lions (18) successful the Eastern Conference this term.
Pasalic leads the mode for Orlando with 5 goals, though helium has been backed up by chap strikers Luis Muriel and Martin Ojeda.
In Pasalic (five), Muriel and Ojeda (both four), they are 1 of 2 trios of team-mates with 4 goals apiece this MLS season.
MATCH PREDICTION: ORLANDO CITY WIN
Orlando are unbeaten successful 7 consecutive matches against Chicago dating backmost to 2021, winning 5 of those (D2). Only 1 of those wins came successful Chicago, however, arsenic the Fire person mislaid lone 1 of their past 8 location matches against the Lions (W3 D4) dating backmost to 2016.
Pareja’s squad person besides kept 4 consecutive cleanable sheets for the archetypal clip successful nine past pursuing their triumph implicit Atlanta connected Saturday. They had not kept a shutout successful their erstwhile 11 regular-season matches anterior to this run.
Chicago, meanwhile, conceded a club-record 7 goals successful their decision to Nashville past clip out. The five-goal borderline of decision was besides the largest successful the Fire’s history.
OPTA WIN PROBABILITY
Chicago Fire – 27.5%
Draw – 24%
Orlando City – 48.5%
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