{"id":753653,"date":"2026-04-26T04:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/753653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T04:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T04:24:14","slug":"chicago-fire-beat-sporting-kc-5-0-run-unbeaten-streak-to-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/753653\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire beat Sporting KC 5-0, run unbeaten streak to 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Zinckernagel and Hugo Cuypers scored two goals apiece, Maren Haile-Selassie added a goal and an assist and the Chicago Fire beat Sporting Kansas City 5-0 on Saturday night at Soldier Field.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire (5-2-2) are unbeaten in their last five games, with four wins. Kansas City has lost five consecutive.<\/p>\n<p>KC (1-7-1), which has been outscored 18-3 during its skid, has a minus-18 goal differential this season, the worst in MLS.<\/p>\n<p>Zinckernagel <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2048218688784929274\" rel=\"nofollow\">opened the scoring<\/a> in the 52nd minute. John Pulskamp made a diving stop on a Cuypers penalty kick, but Zinckernagel put away the rebound from point-blank range.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old midfielder \u2014 who had 15 goals and 15 assists in his first MLS campaign last season \u2014 has a goal in back-to-back games.<\/p>\n<p>Zinckernagel scored from the center of the area in the 65th minute and played a cross to Cuypers for a first-touch finish in the 73rd. Haile-Selassie, on the counter-attack, cut back to evade Pulskamp at the edge of the 18-yard box and put away an empty-netter in the 79th, and Cuypers capped the scoring in the eighth minute of stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire had 69% possession and outshot Kansas City 18-7, 7-1 on target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philip Zinckernagel and Hugo Cuypers scored two goals apiece, Maren Haile-Selassie added a goal and an assist and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":753654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,11222,310066,5386,1818,299527,53526,140743],"class_list":["post-753653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-fire","tag-hugy-cuypers","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-maren-haile-selassie","tag-philip-zinckernagel","tag-sporting-kc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116469108982192755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753653","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=753653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/753654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}