{"id":439134,"date":"2026-10-27T07:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/439134\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T07:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T07:02:37","slug":"chicago-fire-host-orlando-city-in-eastern-conference-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/439134\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire host Orlando City in Eastern Conference play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orlando City SC<\/a> (12-13-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Fire<\/a> (15-10-6, third in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Chicago -175, Orlando City SC +358, Draw +359; over\/under is 3.5 goals<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Fire and Orlando City meet in Eastern Conference play.<\/p>\n

The Fire are 11-8-5 against Eastern Conference opponents. The Fire are fifth in the Eastern Conference with 55 goals led by Maren Haile-Selassie<\/a> with 11.<\/p>\n

Orlando is 8-10-5 in Eastern Conference games. Orlando ranks sixth in the MLS<\/a> with 60 goals led by Martin Ojeda<\/a> with 16.<\/p>\n

The matchup Wednesday is the second meeting of the season between the two teams. The Fire won the last game 2-1.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Haile-Selassie has scored 11 goals and added five assists for the Fire. Anton Jonsson Saletros<\/a> has two goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Ojeda has scored 16 goals with four assists for Orlando. Antoine Griezmann<\/a> has 10 goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Fire: 16-8-6, averaging 4.8 goals, 14.1 shots on goal and 14.7 corner kicks per game while allowing 5.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Orlando: 21-3-6, averaging 7.8 goals, 15.3 shots on goal and 10.8 corner kicks per game while allowing 6.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n

NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Fire: Jack Elliott<\/a> (injured), Robin Lod<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

Orlando: Tyrese Spicer (injured), Robin Jansson<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orlando City SC (12-13-6, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Fire (15-10-6, third in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[47194,171580,2063,171581,157038,4792,5692,139,141,140,9651,74275],"class_list":["post-439134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-antoine-griezmann","tag-anton-saletros","tag-chicago","tag-jack-elliott","tag-maren-haile-selassie","tag-martin-ojeda","tag-mls","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-robin-jansson","tag-robin-lod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439134","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=439134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}