This is a weird recap for me, because I don’t really want to talk about the game.
What I want to talk about is how much this weekend of Chicago Soccer was about the ending of things, with new beginnings around the corner but still largely out of view.
This weekend was (effectively) the end of the Fire’s 2019 season. It was the end of their slim playoff hopes, thanks to New England’s win over NYCFC that ended the playoff race regardless of what the result here would’ve been. It was the last real emotional beat of the Andrew Hauptman Era.