Columbus Crew and Chicago Fire are going to face off on Sunday in the 45th week of the Major League Soccer.
Columbus Crew is in the 10th position in the standings with 44 points. It comes from a 1-3 win against DC United in its last match in the Major League Soccer. So far,, it has won 12 times, draw 8 times, and lost 13 times.
Chicago Fire sits in the 12th position in the standings with 34 points. It comes from a 1-0 loss against New York City in its last match in the Major League Soccer. Thus far,, it has won 9 times, draw 7 times, and lost 17 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Columbus Crew
Columbus Crew has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (28 times or 84.85%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (28 times), 4-4-2 (3 times), 3-4-2-1 (once) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Ezra Hendrickson is expected to play against Chicago Fire with the following players: E. Room, M. Valenzuela, V. Wormgoor, J. Mensah, S. Moreira, M. Hairston, D. Nagbe, P. Martins Santos, L. Zelarayán, D. Etienne Jr. and Miguel Berry.
The average age of Columbus Crew would be 28.64.
Ezra Hendricksonwill probably not be able to employ J. de Lima Junior, P. Kitchen and G. Zardes because of injury.
A. Morris and K. Molino will definitely miss the match.
Chicago Fire
Chicago Fire has mostly adopted the 3-1-4-2 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 30.30%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-1-4-2 (10 times), 4-2-3-1 (9 times), 3-4-2-1 (5 times), 4-3-3 (4 times), 3-5-2 (3 times) and 5-3-2 (2 times).
Raphaël Wicky is expected to play against Columbus Crew with the following players: G. Slonina, M. Navarro Zárate, M. Pineda, J. Bornstein, B. Sekulić, F. Navarro, G. Giménez, Á. Medrán Just, I. Aliseda, F. Herbers and R. Berič.
The average age of Chicago Fire would be 26.09.
Raphaël Wickywill probably not be able to employ K. Kronholm and S. Ivaylov Ivanov because of injury.