{"id":260435,"date":"2025-09-28T04:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/260435\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T04:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T04:32:14","slug":"chicago-fire-beat-columbus-crew-2-0-at-soldier-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/260435\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire beat Columbus Crew 2-0 at Soldier Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Gutman and Hugo Cuypers each scored, Chris Brady recorded his second straight clean sheet and the Chicago Fire beat the Columbus Crew 2-0 on Saturday night at Soldier Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire (14-11-6) moved within two points of the eighth-place Crew (13-8-11), who clinched a playoff berth earlier when the New York Red Bulls lost to New York City FC.<\/p>\n<p>Gutman opened the scoring in the 25th minute when he appeared to be crossing it for Cuypers, but it found the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>Cuypers chipped it over goalkeeper Evan Bush, who had come out of his area on a breakaway, in the 70th for his 17th goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Crew have only won once in their last eight matches.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: September 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andrew Gutman and Hugo Cuypers each scored, Chris Brady recorded his second straight clean sheet and the Chicago&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":260436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[89320,960,11222,53525,34675,53523,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-260435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-andrew-gutman","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-fire","11":"tag-chris-brady","12":"tag-columbus-crew","13":"tag-hugo-cuypers","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115280055147788901","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}