New York Red Bulls vs Chicago Fire FC, MLS 2023 REGULAR SEASON

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MLS · 2023

New York Red Bulls

0 – 1

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Chicago Fire FC

Sat 30 Sep 2023 · 23:30 UTC Red Bull Arena HT 45' · FT 45'

0–1 64' Georgios Koutsias

Y 17' Ousmane Doumbia

Hassan Ndam 49' Y

Y 59' Georgios Koutsias

Hassan Ndam 62' YR

Y 82' Chris Brady

John Tolkin 90' Y

Overview

Match Preview

New York Red Bulls vs Chicago Fire FC — MLS at Red Bull Arena.

New York Red Bulls 18 games · 25 pts (2026/26)
Chicago Fire FC 17 games · 29 pts (2026/26)

Standings

#	Team	P	Pts
1	Nashville SC	18	40
2	Internacional CF Miami	18	38
3	New England Revolution	18	30
4	Chicago Fire FC	17	29
5	New York City FC	18	26
6	FC Cincinnati	18	26
7	Charlotte FC	18	25
8	New York Red Bulls	18	25
9	D.C. United SC	18	23
10	Columbus Crew SC	18	20
11	Orlando City SC	18	20
12	Toronto FC	18	17
13	Philadelphia Union	18	16
14	Montreal Impact FC	18	16
15	Atlanta United FC	18	12
16	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	17	34
17	Los Angeles FC	19	34
18	San Jose Earthquakes	18	33
19	Houston Dynamo	18	32
20	FC Dallas	18	27
21	Real Salt Lake	17	27
22	St. Louis City	18	26
23	Portland Timbers	18	24
24	Seattle Sounders FC	17	24
25	Minnesota United FC	18	24
26	Colorado Rapids SC	18	22
27	Los Angeles Galaxy	19	22
28	San Diego FC	18	21
29	Austin FC	18	17
30	Sporting Kansas City	18	14

Head-to-Head

New York Red Bulls 17 games · Avg 2.5 goals Chicago Fire FC

Last 5 meetings

2023-09-30 New York Red Bulls 0–1 Chicago Fire FC 2023-04-30 Chicago Fire FC 1–1 New York Red Bulls 2022-05-18 New York Red Bulls 3–3 Chicago Fire FC 2022-05-01 Chicago Fire FC 1–2 New York Red Bulls 2021-08-28 New York Red Bulls 0–1 Chicago Fire FC

Recent Form

New York Red Bulls

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
30 Sep	Chicago Fire FC	H	0–1	L
23 Sep	D.C. United SC	A	5–3	W
20 Sep	Austin FC	H	1–1	D
16 Sep	New York City FC	A	0–0	D
03 Sep	Philadelphia Union	A	1–4	L
30 Aug	New England Revolution	A	0–1	L

Chicago Fire FC

Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result
30 Sep	New York Red Bulls	A	1–0	W
24 Sep	New England Revolution	H	2–2	D
20 Sep	Columbus Crew SC	A	0–3	L
16 Sep	Montreal Impact FC	A	0–0	D
02 Sep	D.C. United SC	A	0–4	L
31 Aug	Vancouver Whitecaps FC	H	0–1	L

Season Stats

New York Red Bulls		Chicago Fire FC
#8	Position	#4
25	Points	29
18	Played	17
7 / 4 / 7	W / D / L	9 / 2 / 6
29	Scored	32
39	Conceded	23
-10	GD	+9
1.39	PPG	1.71
39%	Win %	53%

Key Stats

59% Both Teams to Score
H2H (17 games)

53% Over 2.5 Goals
H2H history

16% Clean Sheets
New York Red Bulls this season

41% Clean Sheets
Chicago Fire FC this season

New York Red Bulls are 8th (25 pts). Chicago Fire FC are 4th (29 pts).

Goal Timing (This Season)

New York Red Bulls

0-15

6/4

16-30

2/1

31-45

5/5

46-60

4/7

61-75

1/5

76+

3/3

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Chicago Fire FC

0-15

3/1

16-30

7/4

31-45

1/5

46-60

2/2

61-75

6/–

76+

2/4

■ Scored ■ Conceded

Top Scorers (This Season)

New York Red Bulls

Julian Hall	9 G	2 A
Jorge Ruvalcaba	7 G

Chicago Fire FC

Hugo Cuypers	11 G
Philip Zinckernagel	5 G	4 A

Events

Match Events

0' That's the starting whistle at Red Bull Arena. Ninety minutes of football awaits between New York Red Bulls and Chicago Fire FC.
5' The midfield battle is intense right now. Both New York Red Bulls and Chicago Fire FC are fighting for every inch of the pitch.
10' The 34-year-old Xherdan Shaqiri has been sensational this season — 1 goals and 0 assists is a remarkable return.
15' New York Red Bulls is showing some good football. However, New York Red Bulls are ready to play back every minute. It might result in some problems for the home side. The game will hardly remain goalless.
17' The referee does not hesitate — a card for Ousmane Doumbia on 17 minutes.
22' The clock is ticking and both teams know a goal could change everything at this point.
27' Players seem to put ease on their energy level Spectators hardly appreciate such approach. Teams need to speed up the tempo.
32' Jonathan Dean has been disciplined this evening — perhaps mindful of those 0 cards already picked up this season.
37' New York Red Bulls looks like a favorite considering 1 games won in last 1 matches with its main striker Maxim Choupo-Moting scoring 1 goals.
42' Not even hints on scoring a goal over the last 42 minutes.
47' New York Red Bulls has dominated the recent head-to-head record, winning 1 of the last 1 meetings.
49' The referee does not hesitate — a card for Hassan Ndam on 49 minutes.
52' Maren Haile-Selassie has so much to prove this time. He replaces Ian Torres on 52 minute.
57' While there is no rush on the pitch, let’s have a look at some stats. Georgios Koutsias made 167 appearances and scored 6 goals. He is very likely to score a goal today.
59' Georgios Koutsias catches the referee's attention in entirely the wrong way. card on 59.
62' The referee reaches into his pocket. Out comes the card for Hassan Ndam.
64' Georgios Koutsias doubles the advantage! 0-1 and this game is slipping away from the opposition.
68' Time for substitution for New York Red Bulls. Luquinhas is replaced by Cameron Harper.
71' A change in the Chicago Fire FC ranks — Georgios Koutsias exits the field as Kacper Przybylko enters on 71.
76' New York Red Bulls are deployed in a 4-4-2 today, looking to exploit space against Chicago Fire FC's 4-2-3-1 shape.
77' The whistle greets Omir Fernandez as he departs to be replaced by Cory Burke.
81' A tactical swap from New York Red Bulls — Julian Hall on, Elias Manoel off on 81 minutes.
82' Chicago Fire FC player sees a card in front of him.
87' named a 4-4-2 earlier, and opted for a 4-2-3-1 in response. A fascinating tactical duel is developing.
90' John Tolkin picks up a card and will need to be extremely careful for the remainder of this match.
90' Xherdan Shaqiri makes way for Rafael Czichos at the 90 minute mark. A tactical switch from Chicago Fire FC.
It finishes all square. New York Red Bulls and Chicago Fire FC share the spoils 0-1.

Lineups

New York Red Bulls Lineups

4-4-2

Starting XI

Bench

16
Dru Yearwood ↑ 77'
18
Ryan Meara
7
Cory Burke ↑ 77'
12
Dylan Nealis ↑ 68'
17
Cameron Harper ↑ 68'
19
Wikelmann Carmona
5
Peter Stroud
9
Jorge Hurtado
41
Julian Hall ↑ 81'

Coach Tony Jouaux

Chicago Fire FC Lineups

4-2-3-1

Starting XI

10
Xherdan Shaqiri ↓ Rafael Czichos 90'
21
Fabian Herbers
16
Wyatt Omsberg
30
Gaston Gimenez
6
Miguel Navarro
19
Georgios Koutsias ↓ Kacper Przybylko 71'
4
Carlos Teran
26
Ousmane Doumbia ↓ Brian Gutierrez 71'
34
Chris Brady
24
Jonathan Dean
20
Ian Torres ↓ Maren Haile-Selassie 52'

Bench

Coach Frank Klopas

H2H

H2H Top Scorers

Player	Goals
Robert Beric	3
Patryk Klimala	3
Brian White	2
Lewis Morgan	2
Nemanja Nikolics	2
Bradley Wright-Phillips	2
Bradley Wright-Phillips	2
Maxim Choupo-Moting	2

Head to Head

New York Red Bulls Form

2023-09-30 New York Red Bulls 0–1 Chicago Fire FC L 2023-09-23 D.C. United SC 3–5 New York Red Bulls W 2023-09-20 New York Red Bulls 1–1 Austin FC D 2023-09-16 New York City FC 0–0 New York Red Bulls D 2023-09-03 Philadelphia Union 4–1 New York Red Bulls L 2023-08-30 New England Revolution 1–0 New York Red Bulls L

Chicago Fire FC Form

2023-09-30 New York Red Bulls 0–1 Chicago Fire FC W 2023-09-24 Chicago Fire FC 2–2 New England Revolution D 2023-09-20 Columbus Crew SC 3–0 Chicago Fire FC L 2023-09-16 Montreal Impact FC 0–0 Chicago Fire FC D 2023-09-02 D.C. United SC 4–0 Chicago Fire FC L 2023-08-31 Chicago Fire FC 0–1 Vancouver Whitecaps FC L

Predictions

Prediction accuracy

2 / 4

1.33 New York Red Bulls xG

Expected Goals

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

1.71 Chicago Fire FC xG

I would bet for: New York Red Bulls or Chicago Fire FC 73% + Both teams to score 60%

Match Result

✓ Correct

New York Red Bulls31% Draw27% Chicago Fire FC42%

Actual: Chicago Fire FC win

Both Teams to Score

✗ Wrong

Yes60% 0% No40%

Avg goals/match: 3.04

Actual: No — clean sheet

Over / Under Goals

✗ O/U 2.5

Line	Over	Under
± 0.5	94%	6%
± 1.5	81%	19%
± 2.5	58%	42%
± 3.5	36%	64%
± 4.5	20%	80%

Double Chance

New York Red Bulls or Draw

58%

Draw or Chicago Fire FC

69%

New York Red Bulls or Chicago Fire FC

73%

Half-Time Result

✓ Correct

New York Red Bulls23% Draw44% Chicago Fire FC33%

Actual: Draw at HT

Correct Score

✓ In top 12

1 – 1

11.8%

1 – 2

8.9%

0 – 1

Actual

2 – 1

0 – 2

6.9%

0 – 0

6.5%

2 – 2

5.9%

1 – 0

5.5%

1 – 3

5.1%

2 – 0

4.2%

0 – 3

3.9%

2 – 3

3.5%

Asian Handicap — New York Red Bulls

Handicap	New York Red Bulls covers	Push	Chicago Fire FC covers
-2.5	5%	—	95%
-2	5%	8%	87%
-1.5	13%	—	87%
-1	13%	16%	71%
-0.5	29%	—	71%
+0.5	55%	—	45%
+1	55%	21%	25%
+1.5	75%	—	25%
+2	75%	14%	11%
+2.5	89%	—	11%

Clean Sheet

New York Red Bulls keeps clean sheet

19% ✓

Chicago Fire FC keeps clean sheet

27% ✗

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