{"id":675743,"date":"2026-05-17T15:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675743\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T15:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:31:16","slug":"mbekezeli-mbokazi-stars-as-chicago-fire-keep-clean-sheet-against-cf-montreal-and-move-up-to-third-in-the-eastern-conference-standings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675743\/","title":{"rendered":"Mbekezeli Mbokazi stars as Chicago Fire keep clean sheet against CF Montreal and move up to third in the Eastern Conference standings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mbekezile Mbokazi and the Chicago Fire defense kept their sixth clean sheet of the season, and third straight against CF Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>But the headlines were reserved for Hugo Cuypers who, by finding the net for Fire&#8217;s second goal, entered the history books for scoring for the 10th game in a row. <\/p>\n<p>The Belgian now sits at the top of the Golden Boot race, boasting two more goals than Inter Miami superstar Lionel Messi and Petar Musa.<\/p>\n<p>While Cuypers will take the headlines for his record-breaking feat, it was Philip Zinckernagel who pulled the strings for Gregg Berhalter\u2019s side and opened the scoring in the 14th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Mbokazi played the full 90 minutes and was joined by compatriot Puso Dithejane was introduced in the 68th minute for Chicago and picked up a yellow card late in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mbekezile Mbokazi and the Chicago Fire defense kept their sixth clean sheet of the season, and third straight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,16535,16532,133686,248423,248420,14701,2338,248419,248421,248422,16526],"class_list":{"0":"post-675743","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-montreal","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cf-montreal","11":"tag-chicago-fire-fc","12":"tag-dc-united","13":"tag-dc-united-vs-chicago-fire-fc","14":"tag-m-mbokazi","15":"tag-major-league-soccer","16":"tag-montreal","17":"tag-orlando-pirates","18":"tag-p-dithejane","19":"tag-premier-soccer-league","20":"tag-toronto-fc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675743","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=675743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}