St. Louis CITY SC got Chicago Fire scheduled for both U.S. Open Cup and MLS matches in the same week. So within just a few days, the new MLS squad took two losses from Chicago. The MLS loss was 2-1.
The Fire isn’t having a great season in any case. They rest only third from bottom in the MLS Eastern Conference. Their uprising against St. Louis dragged the CITY team down a notch to third in the West.
The week’s results rang an alarm bell for CITY. Earlier in the season, teams called themselves out by failing to scout and prepare for the upstart expansion team from St.