{"id":393585,"date":"2026-09-08T11:10:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393585\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:10:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T11:10:23","slug":"chicago-fire-take-home-winning-streak-into-matchup-against-inter-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/393585\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire take home winning streak into matchup against Inter Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/inter-miami-cf-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Inter Miami CF<\/a> (12-4-7, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/chicago-fire-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Fire<\/a> (11-6-5, second in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Chicago; Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">LINE: Chicago +114, Inter Miami CF +178, Draw +309; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Fire host Inter Miami looking to continue a three-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The Fire are 8-5-4 against Eastern Conference opponents. The Fire rank third in the Eastern Conference with 43 goals led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/maren-haile-selassie-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maren Haile-Selassie<\/a> with seven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Miami is 9-2-6 against Eastern Conference opponents. Miami ranks third in the Eastern Conference drawing 128 corner kicks, averaging 5.6 per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The matchup Wednesday is the second meeting of the season between the two teams. Miami won the last game 3-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">TOP PERFORMERS: Haile-Selassie has scored seven goals and added four assists for the Fire. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/philip-zinckernagel-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Zinckernagel<\/a> has one goal and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/lionel-messi-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionel Messi<\/a> has scored 19 goals with 10 assists for Miami. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/luis-suarez-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Suarez<\/a> has nine goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">LAST 10 GAMES: Fire: 22-3-5, averaging 6.0 goals, 16.8 shots on goal and 10.5 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Miami: 22-4-4, averaging 8.1 goals, 15.6 shots on goal and 15.3 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Fire: Mbokazi (injured), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/chris-mueller-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Mueller<\/a> (injured), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/soccer\/andre-franco-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andre Franco<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">Miami: Tadeo Allende (injured), Micael (injured).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-0a453225=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inter Miami CF (12-4-7, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Fire (11-6-5, second in the Eastern Conference)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[151058,2063,151056,5429,1660,1658,157038,123,125,124,5692,151054],"class_list":["post-393585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-andre-franco","tag-chicago","tag-chris-mueller","tag-inter-miami-cf","tag-lionel-messi","tag-luis-suarez","tag-maren-haile-selassie","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mls","tag-philip-zinckernagel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}