CHICAGO. Cincinnati conquered Chicago Fire to win 2-1. It was Cincinnati to strike first with a goal of Aaron Boupendza at the 39′. Then it was a penalty in the 45′ minute to make things even for 1-1. Eventually, Miles Robinson gave the win to Cincinnati in the 68′ minute with a goal.

The match was played at the Soldier Field stadium in Chicago on Saturday and it started at 7:30 pm local time. The referee was assisted by and Rogelio Alvarez. The 4th official was Nikola Aleksić. The weather was broken clouds. The temperature was cold at 13.7 degrees Celsius or 56.66 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 60%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

No teams had a vastly superior advantage in terms of ball possession. Chicago Fire was in possession of the ball for 51% of the time vs. Cincinnati that controlled the ball for 49% of the time.

Attitude and shots

Cincinnati was more pushing with 67 dangerous attacks and 14 shots of which 6 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Cincinnati won the match.​

Chicago Fire shot 5 times, 1 on target, 3 off target. On the opposite side, Cincinnati shot 14 times, 6 on target, 6 off target.

Cards

Chicago Fire received 3 yellow cards (Brian Gutierrez, Kellyn Acosta and Mauricio Pineda). On the opposite side, Cincinnati received 3 yellow cards (Obinna Nwobodo, Pavel Bucha and Corey Baird).

Standings

After playing this match, Chicago Fire stays with 1 points to occupy the 11th place in the standings. On the other side, Cincinnati has 4 points (6th).

Next matches

In the next match in the Cincinnati will host New York RB on the 10th of November with a 5-5 head to head record.

Chicago Fire – Formation

Chicago Fire started with a 3-4-2-1 line-up (3-4-2-1).

The manager Frank Klopas decided to play with the following team: Chris Brady (7.0), Allan Arigoni (6.6), Mauricio Pineda (6.4), Rafael Czichos (6.0), Maren Haile-Selassie (6.3), Gastón Giménez (7.5), Kellyn Acosta (6.6), Fabian Herbers (7.0), Xherdan Shaqiri (7.7), Hugo Cuypers (7.0) and Brian Gutierrez (7.3).

The home team had on the bench: Chris Mueller (6.4), Tom Barlow, Tobias Salquist, Wyatt Omsberg, Spencer Richey, Georgios Koutsias (6.8), Jonathan Dean, Federico Navarro (7.0) and Chase Gasper.

Substitutions

Chicago Fire made 3 changes: Kellyn Acosta for Federico Navarro (75′), Fabian Herbers for Georgios Koutsias (75′) and Xherdan Shaqiri for Chris Mueller (86′).

Player of the match: Xherdan Shaqiri​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Chicago Fire was Xherdan Shaqiri.

His rating is 7.7 with 1 goal, 45 passes (76% accurate) and 0 key passes. He won 5 duels out of 8. He performed 4 crosses.

Cincinnati – Formation

Cincinnati started with a 3-4-1-2 line-up (3-4-1-2).

Pat Noonan played with: Roman Celentano (7.0), Miles Robinson (8.1), Matthew Miazga (7.0), Ian Murphy (6.3), Alvas Powell (6.8), Obinna Nwobodo (6.7), Pavel Bucha (7.1), Yuya Kubo (7.3), Luciano Acosta (8.2), Aaron Boupendza (7.8) and Corey Baird (7.0).

These were the players on the bench: Bret Halsey (6.3), Gerardo Valenzuela (6.3), Malik Pinto, Arquimides Ordonez, Isaiah Foster, London Aghedo, Evan Louro, Stiven Jimenez and Sergio Santos (6.8).

Substitutions

Cincinnati made 3 changes: Aaron Boupendza for Sergio Santos (80′), Alvas Powell for Bret Halsey (63′) and Corey Baird for Gerardo Valenzuela (87′).

Player of the match: Luciano Acosta​

The most impressive player for Cincinnati was Luciano Acosta even if he didn’t score any goal.

His rating is 8.2 with 41 passes (80% accurate) and 6 key passes. He won 7 duels out of 14. He performed 12 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Major League Soccer.​

• Vancouver Whitecaps – Charlotte – 1-1
• Chicago Fire – Cincinnati – 1-2
• Dallas – CF Montréal – 1-2
• Houston Dynamo – New York RB – 1-2
• Sporting KC – Philadelphia Union – 1-1
• St. Louis City – New York City – 2-0
• Colorado Rapids – Nashville SC – 1-1
• Portland Timbers – DC United – 2-2
• SJ Earthquakes – LA Galaxy – 1-3
• Seattle Sounders – Austin – 0-0
• New England – Toronto – 0-1