The Chicago Fire continue their two-game road stretch on Saturday evening against the Columbus Crew. The match between the two Eastern Conference rivals kicks off at 4:30 p.m. CT.
The Fire will be looking for three points in Columbus after a scoreless tie in New England earlier in the week. Columbus looks to keep their place in the playoffs as they currently sit in sixth place with 39 points from 27 matches played.
Coverage of tonight's matchup can be found on WGN, CF97 Live, Univision Radio, and MLS LIVE's out-of-market package on ESPN+ when things get started in just under an hour.
All the details on tonight's Fire starting XI and bench are below:
- Three changes have been made to the starting XI that faced New England on Wednesday night.
- Captain Rafael Czichos returns to the starting XI after picking up a knock against CF Montréal that kept him out of the match against New England.
- The backline is rounded out by Miguel Navarro, Boris Sekulić and Carlos Terán.
- Behind them, goalkeeper Gabriel Slonina makes his team-leading 29th start of the season and will hope to claim his 12th clean sheet of the campaign.
- Mauricio Pineda returns to the starting XI for his 18th start of the season, and will lineup alongside Fabian Herbers in holding midfield tonight.
- Herbers will start his second-straight match, starting in two consecutive matches for the first time since June 29 and July 3, against the Philadelphia Union and San Jose Earthquakes, respectively.
- In the attached, Homegrown product Andre Reynolds II will lineup out wide and make his third start of his MLS career. He will be joined in attacking midfield by Schaumburg native Chris Mueller and 19-year-old Brian Gutiérrez.
- Ahead of them, forward Kacper Przybyłko returns to the starting XI after not seeing action in Wednesday's match against New England.
- Available to Head Coach Ezra Hendrickson as substitutions tonight are goalkeeper Spencer Richey, defender Jonathan Bornstein, defender Kendall Burks, defender Jhon Espinoza, midfielder Sergio Oregel Jr., midfielder Federico Navarro, midfielder Xherdan Shaqiri, forward Victor Bezerra and forward Jhon Durán.
- Defender Wyatt Omsberg (left foot), midfielder Gastón Giménez (right thigh), midfielder Jairo Torres (left lower leg), and midfielder Stanislav Ivanov (right quad) are unavailable for selection tonight.
Get a look at Columbus Crew’s starting lineup below as it becomes available:
