{"id":506008,"date":"2026-02-28T21:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506008\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T21:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T21:22:10","slug":"cf-montreal-try-not-to-get-burned-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506008\/","title":{"rendered":"CF Montreal try not to get burned in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The temperature will be colder, but CF Montreal have to be hotter on Saturday in Chicago or their 2026 MLS season may already be up in flames.<\/p>\n<p>CF Montr\u00e9al travel to Soldier Field in Chicago on Saturday afternoon to face Gregg Berhalter\u2019s Chicago Fire in CFMtl\u2019s second match of the 2026 MLS season.<\/p>\n<p>Montr\u00e9al will be desperate to bounce back after a heavy <a href=\"https:\/\/canadiansoccerdaily.com\/2026\/02\/22\/cf-montreal-destroyed-by-san-diego-in-season-opening-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">5-0 opening day defeat on the road to San Diego FC<\/a>, a game in which defender Tom\u00e1s Avil\u00e9s was sent off and will miss this fixture through suspension.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Fire also began the season with a road loss, conceding a late comeback to fall 2-1 to the Houston Dynamo despite taking an early lead through Hugo Cuypers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Head-to-head, Montr\u00e9al actually hold the edge against Chicago with a 13-10-8 overall record against the Fire, though their away record in the Windy City is less favourable with just three wins, four losses, seven draws and 25 goals conceded.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal could face a motivated Joel Waterman on Saturday. The former CFM centre-back was traded to the Fire in August 2025 and has thrived under Berhalter.<\/p>\n<p>At least one club will see their first points of 2026 at Solider Field. After last week, Montr\u00e9al need to respond early, and keep 11 men on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The temperature will be colder, but CF Montreal have to be hotter on Saturday in Chicago or their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-506008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}