{"id":801660,"date":"2026-05-16T23:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801660\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T23:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:46:13","slug":"chicago-fire-beat-montreal-2-0-behind-hugo-cuypers-13th-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/801660\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire beat Montreal 2-0 behind Hugo Cuypers&#8217; 13th goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Hugo Cuypers scored his MLS-leading 13th goal this season, Philip Zinckernagel added a goal and an assist and the Chicago Fire beat CF Montreal 2-0 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Cuypers has at least one goal in each game he has played this season and is just the third player in MLS history to score in 10 consecutive regular-season matches.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Brady had six saves for the Fire for his sixth shutout this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Fire (7-4-2), who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/05\/13\/chicago-fire-dc-united-hugo-cuypers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beat D.C. United 3-1<\/a> on Wednesday to snap a two-game losing streak, have won back-to-back games.<\/p>\n<p>Zinckernagel ran onto a failed clearance attempt by Brayan Vera and skipped a first-touch shot from just inside the top of the penalty box into the net to open the scoring in the 14th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Gillier had four saves for Montreal (4-8-1).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/2026\/02\/28\/chicago-fire-montreal-home-opener\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire beat Montreal 3-0<\/a> in their home opener Feb. 28 at Soldier Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Hugo Cuypers scored his MLS-leading 13th goal this season, Philip Zinckernagel added a goal and an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":801661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[93508,960,11222,53525,53523,5386,1818,53526],"class_list":{"0":"post-801660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-cf-montreal","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-fire","11":"tag-chris-brady","12":"tag-hugo-cuypers","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-illinois","15":"tag-philip-zinckernagel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116586924503696718","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801660","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=801660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}