The Chicago Fire impressed the soccer world with an emphatic wild card win over Orlando City Wednesday, but things get a lot tougher as they draw the Philadelphia Union.<\/p>\n
The Union were the league\u2019s top team in the 2025 season, and they\u2019ll be aiming to continue their defensive dominance as they face the Fire, one of the league\u2019s top-scoring teams during the campaign.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what you need to know about the upcoming series.<\/p>\n
What is the schedule for the series?<\/p>\n
Unlike the other rounds of the MLS Cup Playoffs, the conference quarterfinal round is a best-of-three series, and it will get underway Sunday at 4:30 p.m. with Game 1 in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Game 2 of the series will take place at Bridgeview\u2019s Seat Geek Stadium on Saturday, November 1, with a kick time of 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Game 3, if necessary, would take place back in Philadelphia on Saturday, November 8.<\/p>\n
After the conference quarterfinal round, the playoff format switches to winner-take-all games through the MLS Cup Final in December.<\/p>\n
Where can I watch Sunday\u2019s game?<\/p>\n
The Sunday match will be available on FS1 and Fox Deportes, along with Apple TV-Plus.<\/p>\n
Apple TV-Plus is currently set to air Games 2 and 3 of the series, though other TV channels could end up airing the contests.<\/p>\n
How did the teams fare against one another?<\/p>\n
Philadelphia won both of their games against Chicago this season, capturing a 1-0 win in Chicago in June and a 4-0 win in Philly in August.<\/p>\n
Just how good were the Union this season?<\/p>\n
The Union had the league\u2019s best record, but they had an up-and-down performance down the stretch, which included a 6-0 win over D.C. United and a 7-0 loss at the hands of the Vancouver Whitecaps.<\/p>\n
The Union got 16 goals out of Tai Baribo in 29 games this season, with Milan Iloski adding 12 more in just 23 matches.<\/p>\n
The Union were extremely tight defensively, allowing just 35 goals in 34 matches, the fewest in the league. Their plus-22 goal differential was second-best in the league, trailing only Inter Miami.<\/p>\n
What about the Fire?<\/p>\n
The Fire had the second-best scoring attack in MLS this season, racking up 68 goals on the year. Hugo Cuypers had 19 goals during the regular season and notched a brace in Chicago\u2019s 3-1 win over Orlando City in the wild card match at Seat Geek Stadium last week.<\/p>\n
Philip Zinckernagel had 15 goals on the season, and he had 17 assists on the year, making him one of the league\u2019s best in that category.<\/p>\n
The Fire held Orlando, who had the league\u2019s third-best offense during the regular season, to just six shot attempts, compared to 24 for Chicago as they romped to a win and secured a spot in the conference quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicago Fire impressed the soccer world with an emphatic wild card win over Orlando City Wednesday, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11444,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-15916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-chicago-fire","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}