Chicago Fire FC vs New York Red Bulls, MLS 2026 REGULAR SEASON

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MLS · 2026

Chicago Fire FC

2 – 2

Full Time

New York Red Bulls

Sat 24 Oct 2020 · 23:30 UTC Soldier Field HT 45+255' · FT 45+255'

Y 54' Dru Yearwood

Y 79' Aaron Long

Overview

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Chicago Fire FC vs New York Red Bulls — MLS at Soldier Field.

Chicago Fire FC 26 games · 42 pts (2026/26)
New York Red Bulls 26 games · 33 pts (2026/26)

Match Details

Referee Frank Anderson
Referee Nima Saghafi
Referee Peter Manikowski
Referee Edvin Jurisevic
Referee Ismir Pekmic

Standings

#	Team	P	Pts
1	Nashville SC	27	60
2	Internacional CF Miami	27	46
3	New England Revolution	27	46
4	Charlotte FC	27	43
5	Chicago Fire FC	26	42
6	Philadelphia Union	27	39
7	Orlando City SC	27	34
8	New York City FC	27	33
9	FC Cincinnati	26	33
10	New York Red Bulls	26	33
11	D.C. United SC	26	30
12	Columbus Crew SC	27	29
13	Toronto FC	27	29
14	Atlanta United FC	27	27
15	Montreal Impact FC	27	24
16	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	26	50
17	FC Dallas	27	47
18	San Jose Earthquakes	27	45
19	St. Louis City	26	44
20	Houston Dynamo	27	44
21	Los Angeles FC	28	41
22	Colorado Rapids SC	27	36
23	Los Angeles Galaxy	28	36
24	Seattle Sounders FC	26	35
25	San Diego FC	27	32
26	Portland Timbers	27	32
27	Real Salt Lake	27	32
28	Austin FC	27	31
29	Minnesota United FC	27	29
30	Sporting Kansas City	26	21

Head-to-Head

Chicago Fire FC 18 games · Avg 2.4 goals New York Red Bulls

Last 5 meetings

2020-10-24 Chicago Fire FC 2–2 New York Red Bulls 2019-06-29 New York Red Bulls 3–1 Chicago Fire FC 2019-03-30 Chicago Fire FC 1–0 New York Red Bulls 2018-08-12 Chicago Fire FC 0–1 New York Red Bulls 2018-04-21 New York Red Bulls 1–2 Chicago Fire FC

Recent Form

Chicago Fire FC

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
24 Oct	New York Red Bulls	H	2–2	D
17 Oct	Sporting Kansas City	H	2–2	D
11 Oct	D.C. United SC	H	2–1	W
08 Oct	Sporting Kansas City	A	0–1	L
03 Oct	Montreal Impact FC	A	2–2	D
27 Sep	Atlanta United FC	H	2–0	W

New York Red Bulls

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
24 Oct	Chicago Fire FC	A	2–2	D
18 Oct	Orlando City SC	H	1–1	D
14 Oct	Toronto FC	A	1–1	D
10 Oct	Atlanta United FC	A	1–0	W
07 Oct	Internacional CF Miami	H	1–2	L
03 Oct	Orlando City SC	A	1–3	L

Season Stats

Chicago Fire FC		New York Red Bulls
#5	Position	#10
42	Points	33
26	Played	26
12 / 6 / 8	W / D / L	9 / 6 / 11
46	Scored	34
38	Conceded	48
+8	GD	-14
1.62	PPG	1.27
46%	Win %	35%

Key Stats

61% Both Teams to Score
H2H (18 games)

50% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history

31% Clean Sheets
Chicago Fire FC this season

23% Clean Sheets
New York Red Bulls this season

Chicago Fire FC are 5th (42 pts). New York Red Bulls are 10th (33 pts).

Goal Timing (This Season)

Chicago Fire FC

0-15

7/2

16-30

7/5

31-45

3/8

46-60

4/6

61-75

8/–

76+

3/9

■ Scored ■ Conceded

New York Red Bulls

0-15

6/4

16-30

2/3

31-45

5/6

46-60

5/8

61-75

2/6

76+

5/4

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Top Scorers (This Season)

Chicago Fire FC

Hugo Cuypers	11 G
Maren Haile-Selassie	8 G	3 A
Philip Zinckernagel	5 G	4 A

New York Red Bulls

Julian Hall	10 G	2 A
Jorge Ruvalcaba	7 G

Events

Match Events

0' What a night it is going to be! Chicago Fire FC welcome New York Red Bulls for this crunch clash at Soldier Field.
5' While there is no rush on the pitch, let’s have a look at some stats. Dru Yearwood made 89 appearances and scored 6 goals. He is very likely to score a goal today.
10' A quiet spell here at Soldier Field. New York Red Bulls seem content sitting deep and soaking up pressure.
15' New York Red Bulls have won 425 goals from 291 games. They will be desperate to add to that tally today.
20' The referee has had an easy afternoon — neither side has been overly physical in the tackle.
25' Tim Parker has been disciplined this evening — perhaps mindful of those 0 cards already picked up this season.
30' Ignacio Aliseda, a Argentina , has 0 bookings this season and will need to keep his discipline tonight.
35' With 0 assists to his name this season, Fabian Herbers is clearly more than just a goal scorer for New York Red Bulls.
39' Kyle Duncan adds to his 1 season tally! New York Red Bulls lead 0-1 — and this changes everything.
44' Neither side is committing men forward. This has all the hallmarks of a tense, tactical contest.
49' Spectators are craving for more action. Both teams play very cautiously. They need to put some more energy.
51' What composure from Robert Beric! The Slovenia international strokes it home. 1-1.
54' A moment of madness from Dru Yearwood on 54 minutes earns him a Yellow card. New York Red Bulls will be frustrated.
56' The crowd applauds Samuel Tetteh as he leaves the pitch. Caden Clark steps in for New York Red Bulls.
61' New York Red Bulls has dominated the recent head-to-head record, winning 1 of the last 2 meetings.
66' Chicago Fire FC are keeping things exceptionally tight at the back. It will take something special to break them down.
70' The crowd applauds Dru Yearwood as he leaves the pitch. Cristian Casseres steps in for New York Red Bulls.
72' The deadlock is broken! Przemyslaw Frankowski gets on the scoresheet on 72 minutes.
77' Chicago Fire FC is defending very well tonight not leaving a chance for their rivals to get through for a goal.
78' Fresh legs for New York Red Bulls! Brian White comes on to replace Sean Davis.
79' Aaron Long was booked on 79.
80' Chicago Fire FC make a change. Fabian Herbers trudges off to be replaced by Miguel Navarro on 80 minutes.
85' Matchday of the Array and both teams know exactly what is at stake tonight.
90' Spectators do not have much to choose from both teams. The sides had several scoring chances but they still need a bit more than just a sight of a goal.
celebrates a vital win. Three points that could prove pivotal come season's end.

Lineups

Chicago Fire FC Lineups

Starting XI

Bench

Coach Raphaël Wicky

New York Red Bulls Lineups

Starting XI

16
Dru Yearwood ↓ Cristian Casseres Jr. 70'
24
Jason Pendant
33
Aaron Long
26
Tim Parker
27
Sean Davis C ↓ Brian White 78'
18
Ryan Meara
6
Kyle Duncan
22
Florian Valot
11
Samuel Tetteh ↓ Caden Clark 56'
74
Tom Barlow
8
Jared Stroud ↓ Marc Rzatkowski 78'

Bench

Coach Gerhard Struber

H2H

H2H Top Scorers

Player	Goals
Robert Beric	3
Patryk Klimala	3
Georgios Koutsias	2
Brian White	2
Lewis Morgan	2
Cameron Harper	2
Nemanja Nikolics	2
Bradley Wright-Phillips	2

Head to Head

Chicago Fire FC Form

2020-10-24 Chicago Fire FC 2–2 New York Red Bulls D 2020-10-17 Chicago Fire FC 2–2 Sporting Kansas City D 2020-10-11 Chicago Fire FC 2–1 D.C. United SC W 2020-10-08 Sporting Kansas City 1–0 Chicago Fire FC L 2020-10-03 Montreal Impact FC 2–2 Chicago Fire FC D 2020-09-27 Chicago Fire FC 2–0 Atlanta United FC W

New York Red Bulls Form

2020-10-24 Chicago Fire FC 2–2 New York Red Bulls D 2020-10-18 New York Red Bulls 1–1 Orlando City SC D 2020-10-14 Toronto FC 1–1 New York Red Bulls D 2020-10-10 Atlanta United FC 0–1 New York Red Bulls W 2020-10-07 New York Red Bulls 1–2 Internacional CF Miami L 2020-10-03 Orlando City SC 3–1 New York Red Bulls L

Predictions

Prediction accuracy

2 / 4

1.96 Chicago Fire FC xG

Expected Goals

Dixon-Coles · Bivariate Poisson · Neg. Binomial · Elo

1.3 New York Red Bulls xG

I would bet for: Both teams to score 62% + Over 2.5 goals 62%

Match Result

✗ Wrong

Chicago Fire FC50% Draw25% New York Red Bulls25%

Actual: Draw

Both Teams to Score

✓ Correct

Yes62% 0% No38%

Avg goals/match: 3.26

Actual: Yes — both scored

Over / Under Goals

✓ O/U 2.5

Line	Over	Under
± 0.5	95%	5%
± 1.5	83%	17%
± 2.5	62%	38%
± 3.5	41%	59%
± 4.5	23%	77%

Double Chance

Chicago Fire FC or Draw

75%

Draw or New York Red Bulls

50%

Chicago Fire FC or New York Red Bulls

75%

Half-Time Result

✗ Wrong

Chicago Fire FC38% Draw42% New York Red Bulls20%

Actual: New York Red Bulls win at HT

Correct Score

✓ In top 12

1 – 1

10.7%

2 – 1

9.2%

2 – 0

7.4%

1 – 0

6.9%

1 – 2

6.1%

3 – 1

2 – 2

Actual

0 – 0

5.4%

3 – 0

4.7%

0 – 1

4.3%

3 – 2

3.9%

0 – 2

3.3%

Asian Handicap — Chicago Fire FC

Handicap	Chicago Fire FC covers	Push	New York Red Bulls covers
-2.5	15%	—	85%
-2	15%	16%	70%
-1.5	30%	—	70%
-1	30%	21%	48%
-0.5	52%	—	48%
+0.5	76%	—	24%
+1	76%	14%	11%
+1.5	89%	—	11%
+2	89%	7%	4%
+2.5	96%	—	4%

Clean Sheet

Chicago Fire FC keeps clean sheet

28% ✓

New York Red Bulls keeps clean sheet

15% ✓

Predictions are statistical estimates based on season form, H2H history, and a Poisson model. Not financial advice.