{"id":92250,"date":"2025-03-16T05:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T05:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/fire-pick-up-2nd-straight-win-with-2-1-victory-over-toronto\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T05:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T05:12:33","slug":"fire-pick-up-2nd-straight-win-with-2-1-victory-over-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/fire-pick-up-2nd-straight-win-with-2-1-victory-over-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire pick up 2nd straight win with 2-1 victory over Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<section id=\"0\" class=\" w-full\">\n<div class=\"xl:container mx-0 !px-4 py-0 pb-4 !mx-0 !px-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/25679789.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.deadspin.com\/tr:w-900\/25679789.jpg\" alt=\"MLS: Chicago Fire FC at Toronto FC\" class=\"w-full\"\/><span class=\"text-0.8 leading-tight\">Mar 15, 2025; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Chicago Fire defender Jack Elliott (3) kicks the ball away from Toronto FC midfielder Kosi Thompson (6) during the first half at BMO Field. Mandatory Credit: John E. Sokolowski-Imagn Images<!-- --> <!-- --> <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-1\">\n<p>Hugo Cuypers scored his fourth goal of the season and the Chicago Fire reversed an early deficit to complete a 2-1 victory at Toronto FC on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-2\">\n<p>Andrew Gutman also scored in Chicago&#8217;s second consecutive victory in their first season under former U.S. men&#8217;s national team manager Gregg Berhalter.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-3\">\n<p>The Fire (2-1-1, 7 points) have already scored nine goals across that four-game start, after having scored 40 or fewer in each of their four 34-game MLS seasons.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-4\">\n<p>Deandre Kerr scored in the 11th minute for Toronto (0-3-1, 1 point), which opened its home schedule with a third consecutive loss following a season-opening draw at D.C. United.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-5\">\n<p>First-year manager Robin Fraser&#8217;s group has now conceded 10 goals in their first four matches &#8212; and at least two in each.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-6\">\n<p>Kerr put Toronto in front early on one of the Reds&#8217; few positive attacking sequences. Jonathan Osorio played an early give-and-go into Kerr at the edge of the penalty area before spraying the ball wide right. Kerr outmuscled his defender to head in a Federico Bernardeschi cross from about six yards.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-7\">\n<p>Gutman pulled Chicago level in the 29th minute after collecting a loose ball and dribbling toward the edge of the penalty area. Gutman then unfurled a well-struck shot that sailed beyond goalkeeper Sean Johnson&#8217;s dive and just inside the far right post.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-8\">\n<p>Cuypers then put the visitors in front just before halftime. After receiving a pass from midfield, Cuypers turned and played Leonardo Barroso into space down the right.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-9\">\n<p>Barroso returned a cross, and although Cuypers&#8217; first touch was a bit long, he recovered in time to bundle the ball across the line past the charging Johnson.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-10\">\n<p>Cuypers missed an excellent chance to extend Chicago&#8217;s lead about 15 minutes into the second half, with Johnson sprinting from his line to provide just enough pressure to force Cuypers&#8217; finish on the run wide of the right post.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"section-11\">\n<p>Then in the 70th minute, Cuypers had what appeared to be his second goal disallowed for a hold by Maren Haile-Selassie on Johnson, following a video review.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/p>\n<section id=\"section-12\">\n<p>&#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/deadspin.com\/fire-pick-up-2nd-straight-win-with-2-1-victory-over-toronto\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 15, 2025; Toronto, Ontario, CAN; Chicago Fire defender Jack Elliott (3) kicks the ball away from Toronto FC midfielder Kosi Thompson (6) during the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}