With 20 goals scored, the Chicago Fire sit 12th out of 14 teams in that category in Major League Soccer’s Eastern Conference. Even with the recent uptick in scoring, that feels about right. The team scored a dismal four goals through the first nine games of the season. The Fire have scored 16 goals in the nine games since then—a much better output—but it’s going to take a lot more to overcome such a terrible start.
Like usual—and this dates back to the Veljko Paunovic days—the Fire are underperforming their Expected Goals (xG) as a team.