Chicago Fire (11-6-4, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto FC (5-7-10, eighth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Chicago +123, Toronto FC +185, Draw +270; over\/under is 2.5 goals<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Toronto and the Chicago Fire square off in Eastern Conference play.<\/p>\n
Toronto is 4-5-8 in conference play. Toronto is 16-0-5 when it scores more than two goals.<\/p>\n
The Fire are 8-5-3 against conference opponents. The Fire have a 30-4-5 record in games they score a pair of goals.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season. The Fire won the last meeting 2-1.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Daniel Salloi has six goals and four assists for Toronto. Derrick Etienne has two goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Philip Zinckernagel has scored five goals and added eight assists for the Fire. Maren Haile-Selassie has three goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Toronto: 10-4-16, averaging 3.6 goals, 10.8 shots on goal and 12.3 corner kicks per game while allowing 4.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Fire: 23-3-4, averaging 5.7 goals, 16.8 shots on goal and 12.0 corner kicks per game while allowing 4.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Toronto: Richard Chukwu (injured), Lazar Stefanovic (injured), Nelson Palacio (injured), Deandre Christopher Kerr (injured), Jonathan Osorio (injured), Niklas Dorsch (injured).<\/p>\n
Fire: Andre Franco (injured), Mbokazi (injured), Chris Mueller (injured).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire (11-6-4, second in the Eastern Conference) vs. Toronto FC (5-7-10, eighth in the Eastern Conference) Toronto;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61322,9008,61324,9035,60215,21634,21637,53803,61321,8478,40368,46055,61323,48917,205,49,48,330],"class_list":["post-195691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-andre-franco","tag-chicago-fire","tag-chris-mueller","tag-daniel-salloi","tag-deandre-kerr","tag-derrick-etienne","tag-jonathan-osorio","tag-lazar-stefanovic","tag-maren-haile-selassie","tag-mls-soccer","tag-nelson-palacio","tag-niklas-dorsch","tag-philip-zinckernagel","tag-richard-chukwu","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}