The Chicago Fire hit the road on Wednesday night for the first of two matches away from home this week. Up first, a contest with Eastern Conference counterparts the New England Revolution, set to kick off at 6:30 p.m. CT.
The Fire will be looking to get back in the win column after a pair of defeats at home in their last two outings, and look to make it three wins in their last four road matches dating back to late July. Like the Fire, the Revolution also enter the match looking to climb above the playoff line in the conference, as they currently sit in ninth place with 35 points from 27 matches played.
Coverage of tonight's matchup can be found on WGN, CF97 Live, Univision Radio, and MLS LIVE's out-of-market package on ESPN+ when things get started in just under an hour.
All the details on tonight's Fire starting XI and bench are below:
- Three changes have been made to the starting XI that took on CF Montréal on Saturday night.
- Fabian Herbers returns to the starting XI to make his ninth start of the season, and will lineup alongside Federico Navarro in holding midfield tonight.
- In the attack, Homegrown product Andre Reynolds II will lineup out wide and make the second start of his career. He will be joined in attacking midfield by Schaumburg native Chris Mueller and 18-year-old Brian Gutiérrez, who makes the 50th Fire appearance of his young career tonight.
- Ahead of them, forward Jhon Durán sits atop the attack in what will be his ninth start of the season.
- In defense, fullback Miguel Navarro returns to the lineup after missing Saturday's match while serving a one-match suspension due to yellow card accumulation. He'll line up opposite Boris Sekulić this evening.
- Jonathan Bornstein wears the captain's armband tonight in lieu of Rafael Czichos, who will miss tonight's match with a left knee injury. Bornstein and Carlos Terán round out tonight's defensive back line.
- Behind them, goalkeeper Gabriel Slonina makes his team-leading 28th start of the season and will hope to claim his 11th clean sheet of the campaign.
- Available to Head Coach Ezra Hendrickson as substitutions tonight are goalkeeper Spencer Richey, defender Kendall Burks, defender Jhon Espinoza, defender/midfielder Mauricio Pineda, midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri, forward Victor Bezerra, forward Stanislav Ivanov, forward Alex Monis, and forward Kacper Przybyłko.
- Defender Wyatt Omsberg (left foot), defender Rafael Czichos (left knee), midfielder Gastón Giménez (right thigh), midfielder Jairo Torres (left lower leg), and midfielder Javier Casas, Jr. (right lower leg) are unavailable for selection tonight.
Get a look at New England's starting lineup below as it becomes available:
