Robin Lod and Andrew Gutman each scored a goal to help the Chicago Fire beat Toronto FC 2-1 on Saturday night at Soldier Field for the Fire\u2019s third consecutive win.<\/p>\n
Toronto (3-6-5) has lost three in a row and is winless in eight straight, dating to a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Rapids on April 4 \u2014 the last of a four-game unbeaten streak.<\/p>\n
Chris Brady had three saves for the Fire (8-4-2), who are now 14-14-14 all time against Toronto.<\/p>\n
Lod opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. On the counterattack, Hugo Cuypers played a centering pass from the left side to Maren Haile-Selassie, who tapped a first-touch pass to a charging Lod. He beat goalkeeper Luka Gavran one on one to give the Fire a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Gutman headed home a corner kick played in by Philip Zinckernagel to give the Fire a 2-1 lead in the 65th minute.<\/p>\n
Toronto\u2019s Josh Sargent returned from a three-game absence (thigh) and scored a goal that made it 1-1 in the 34th minute. Alonso Coello, on the counterattack, played a through ball to a charging Sargent for a first-touch finish that slipped under the crossbar.<\/p>\n
Cuypers, who leads MLS with 13 goals, saw his string of consecutive appearances with a goal snapped at 10 games \u2014 the third-longest in league history.<\/p>\n
The league now takes a break for the FIFA World Cup and will return to action July 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robin Lod and Andrew Gutman each scored a goal to help the Chicago Fire beat Toronto FC 2-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25349,9008,25350,25352,25348,25351,48,330,3543],"class_list":["post-58318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-andrew-gutman","tag-chicago-fire","tag-hugo-cuypers","tag-mls-world-cup-break","tag-robin-lod","tag-sean-brady","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-fc","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58318","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=58318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}