{"id":305835,"date":"2026-07-26T06:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T06:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305835\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T06:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T06:29:13","slug":"chicago-fire-lineup-vs-new-york-city-fc-is-robert-lewandowski-playing-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305835\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire Lineup vs. New York City FC- Is Robert Lewandowski Playing Tonight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Fire face New York City FC at Yankee Stadium on Saturday night in an important Eastern Conference matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams are looking to improve their position in the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/tag\/mls\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MLS<\/a> standings after returning to regular-season action following the <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonsports.com\/soccer\/2026-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> break. Chicago currently sit on 26 points from 15 matches, while NYCFC have 22 points from 16 games.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire had their three-game winning streak ended by Inter Miami in a 3-2 defeat earlier this week. NYCFC, meanwhile, come into the match after a midweek win over the Columbus Crew.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago also have history working against them. They are winless in their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagofirefc.com\/news\/matchday-chicago-fire-fc-travels-to-the-bronx-to-take-on-new-york-city-fc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last nine games <\/a>against NYCFC and will be hoping to end that run in The Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest lineup news, team updates and the answer to the big question about Robert Lewandowski.<\/p>\n<p>Is Robert Lewandowski Playing Tonight?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire face New York City FC at Yankee Stadium on Saturday night in an important Eastern Conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":["post-305835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}