{"id":368696,"date":"2026-10-09T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368696\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T07:38:10","slug":"chicago-fire-host-new-york-city-fc-in-eastern-conference-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368696\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire host New York City FC in Eastern Conference action"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City FC<\/a> (8-10-9, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Fire<\/a> (13-8-6, third in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Chicago; Saturday, 2:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Chicago -124, NYCFC +288, Draw +286; over\/under is 2.5 goals<\/p>\n

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

The Fire are 9-6-5 against conference opponents. The Fire are 33-4-5 when they record a pair of goals.<\/p>\n

NYCFC is 6-8-6 against Eastern Conference teams. NYCFC ranks eighth in the Eastern Conference with 126 shots on goal, averaging 4.7 per game.<\/p>\n

The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Maren Haile-Selassie<\/a> has nine goals and five assists for the Fire. Robert Lewandowski<\/a> has scored four goals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Nicolas Ezequiel Fernandez Mercau<\/a> has 15 goals and three assists for NYCFC. Luighi<\/a> has scored four goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Fire: 18-4-8, averaging 5.1 goals, 15.9 shots on goal and 12.0 corner kicks per game while allowing 4.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n

NYCFC: 9-6-15, averaging 3.3 goals, 13.2 shots on goal and 14.1 corner kicks per game while allowing 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n

NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Fire: Robert Turdean<\/a> (injured), Noah Allen<\/a> (injured), Chris Brady<\/a> (injured), Anzor Mekvabishvili<\/a> (injured), Andre Franco<\/a> (injured), Robin Lod<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

NYCFC: Arnau Farnos (injured), Drew Baiera<\/a> (injured), Mitja Ilenic (injured), Tayvon Gray<\/a> (injured), Talles Magno<\/a> (injured), Matt Freese<\/a> (injured), Aiden O’Neill (injured), Keaton Parks<\/a> (injured), Kai Trewin<\/a> (injured), Maxi Moralez<\/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":"New York City FC (8-10-9, seventh in the Eastern Conference) vs. Chicago Fire (13-8-6, third in the Eastern…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[136167,136166,8287,136165,123121,51825,64759,126538,123270,33304,29959,6583,9,11,10,6584,115771,136164,136168,54952,54953],"class_list":["post-368696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-andre-franco","tag-anzor-mekvabishvili","tag-chicago","tag-chris-brady","tag-drew-baiera","tag-kai-trewin","tag-keaton-parks","tag-luighi","tag-maren-haile-selassie","tag-matt-freese","tag-maxi-moralez","tag-mls","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nycfc","tag-robert-lewandowski","tag-robert-turdean","tag-robin-lod","tag-talles-magno","tag-tayvon-gray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368696","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=368696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}