Charlotte vs Chicago Fire — Major League Soccer: stats, lineups & analysis
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- 34′Charlotte, yellow card:
- 38′Charlotte, yellow card:
- Half-time
- 49′Charlotte, substitution:off
- 58′Chicago Fire, goal:0–1assist
- 61′Charlotte, goal disallowed:Goal Disallowed
- 70′Charlotte, substitution:off
- 70′Charlotte, substitution:off
- 74′Charlotte, yellow card:
- 75′Chicago Fire, substitution:off
- 75′Chicago Fire, substitution:off
- 80′Chicago Fire, substitution:off
- 80′Chicago Fire, substitution:off
- 81′Chicago Fire, yellow card:
- 81′Charlotte, substitution:off
- 81′Charlotte, substitution:off
- 82′Charlotte, yellow card:
- 90+8′Charlotte, second yellow card:
- 90+8′Charlotte, yellow card:
- Full-time0 – 1
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Chicago Fire edge Charlotte 1-0 as Johan Gómez strikes after the break
Chicago Fire won 1-0 at Bank of America Stadium on Major League Soccer's Matchday 27, ending Charlotte's run of eight games unbeaten. A crowd of 31,011 watched a goalless first half in which neither side found a way through, the interval arriving with the score level at 0-0.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
The decisive moment came in the 58th minute. Johan Gómez scored for the visitors, set up by Jack Elliott, and Charlotte never recovered an equaliser. The result also ended a run of seven games without a win for Chicago Fire, who had drawn three of their previous five and lost the other two.
Chicago Fire were the more threatening side overall, finishing with 18 shots to Charlotte's 11 and nine on target to two, while holding 59% of the possession against Charlotte's 41%. Charlotte's night ended badly when Timothy Ream was sent off in the 90+8 minute, leaving them to finish with ten men.
The win lifted Chicago Fire from 11th to ninth, one place and one point behind Charlotte, who stayed eighth on 43 points having played one more game. Oddsivio's pre-match forecast had given Chicago Fire a 28% chance of winning.
Kristijan Kahlina earned the highest rating of any player, 8.06, in a losing cause for Charlotte. Maren Haile-Selassie (7.87) and Jack Elliott, who provided the assist for the winner (7.82), were the best-rated players on the Chicago Fire side.
Chicago Fire put nine of their 18 shots on target, while Charlotte managed just two from their 11 attempts.
Chicago Fire won 1–0 away against Charlotte (half-time 0–0).
Charlotte met Chicago Fire in the Major League Soccer (Regular Season - 27). Kick-off was Saturday, 26 September 2026, 23:30 UTC at Bank of America Stadium. Referee: Chris Penso. Attendance: 31,011.
Team pages: Charlotte · Chicago Fire · Major League Soccer
Key moments
- 58' Goal: Johan Gómez (assist: Jack Elliott) — 0–1 · Watch Johan Gómez's goal video (58')
Starting line-ups
Charlotte (4-3-3)
Chicago Fire (4-4-2)
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Charlotte 47%, the draw 25%, Chicago Fire 28%. It finished Charlotte 0–1 Chicago Fire.
Level sides, home ground swings it — Nothing separates them on our strength rating, and Major League Soccer home advantage gives Charlotte the lean. The draw at 25% is held down by a high-scoring environment.
Why Charlotte in front?
Home ground, mostly. Almost nothing between them on our strength rating — 1545 to 1519. Sides this close won 46.1% of 13,603 home games (draw 27.1%, visitors 26.8%). Major League Soccer home sides out-perform the global norm — and the difference mostly flows to away wins (25.8% vs 30.1%). Major League Soccer homes won 49.1% of 5,190 games vs 44.7% across all 100,616 — outside the noise band, so the tally moves accordingly.
Why only 47%?
Because on our strength rating there is nothing in it. Chicago Fire hold 6 more possession points (50 to 44 in recent games) — and between equals, control has been worth something. Between evenly-matched sides, when the visitors held this control edge the home team's win rate fell to 40.0% across 5,447 games, from 44.0% when styles were level. Charlotte scored +0.66 goals per game beyond chance-quality — home sides this hot gave some of it back. Opponents of hot-finishing home sides won 29.0% of 1,435 games, vs 27.4% against normal finishing.
Why the draw at 25%?
Between sides this level the draw starts at 27.1%. These teams' recent games average 3.2 goals — a high-scoring environment. Games in that environment drew 23.0% of 16,936. The goals environment takes 2.3 points off the draw. The control factor adds 1.2 points to the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Out: I. Toklomati, an important player, and Liel Abada, a rotation player. This does not change our forecast yet: we are still measuring how much missing players like these cost a team. Out: Robert Lewandowski, a star player, Robin Lod, a rotation player, and Noah Allen, on a provisional rating. The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
Sirius probabilities, frozen at kick-off. Analysis, not betting advice. How Sirius is doing this season · Full breakdown, evidence cards and squad news in the Match Insights tab
About this match
On this page: the Charlotte vs Chicago Fire final score and result, goal highlights and video clips of every goal, who scored, starting lineups, match stats and the full match report from this Major League Soccer fixture.
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