When the Chicago Fire face the New York Red Bulls on Saturday in Harrison, NJ, it’ll be a matchup of two teams struggling to start the season. Like the Fire, the Red Bulls are in the middle of a youth movement. And while the Fire are 0-1-1 in 2021, New York has dropped two straight—a 2-1 loss to Sporting Kansas City followed by a 3-2 loss to the LA Galaxy fueled by Chicharito’s hat trick.
For the Fire, this is perhaps the team’s best chance to take all three points on the road since last September’s visit to FC Cincinnati, which ended in a 0-0 draw after a sluggish 90 minutes.