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Chicago Fire 3-0 D.C. United - September 16, 2017 / MLS 2017

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MLS 2017 - Round 28 - Eastern Conference

Toyota Park - Bridgeview - United States

September 16, 2017 - 19:30

15 643

Chicago Fire

3 - 0

D.C. United

(o.g) Ian Harkes

22'

Assist by Arturo AlvarezBrandon Vincent

62'

(penalty) Nemanja Nikolics

90'

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15' - Yellow card Brandon Vincent15

22' - Own goal Ian Harkes22

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62' - Goal Brandon Vincent62

62' - Substitution Deshorn Brownis substituted by Patrick Mullins

71' - Substitution Arturo Alvarezis substituted by João Meira71

78' - Substitution Steven Birnbaumis substituted by Zoltán Stieber

84' - Substitution Paul Arriolais substituted by Bruno Miranda

90' - Goal Nemanja Nikolics90

91' - Substitution Nemanja Nikolicsis substituted by David Arshakyan91

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Chicago Fire

3 - 0

D.C. United

Chicago Fire D.C. United

Team line-ups

Chicago Fire

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

23Nikolics9090+1

Nemanja Nikolics

Hungary

B.date31/12/1987

Age29 years

H1m80

positionCentre forward

11Accam

David Accam

Ghana

B.date28/09/1990

Age26 years

H1m74

positionLeft Winger

9Solignac

Luis Solignac

Argentina

B.date16/02/1991

Age26 years

H1m84

positionStriker

12Alvarez71

Arturo Alvarez

El Salvador

B.date28/06/1985

Age32 years

H1m75

positionLeft Winger

6McCarty

Dax McCarty

United States

B.date30/04/1987

Age30 years

H1m75

positionBox-to-box midfielder

18Conner

Drew Conner

United States

B.date18/02/1994

Age23 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

3Vincent6215

Brandon Vincent

United States

B.date01/05/1994

Age23 years

H1m79

positionLeft full-back

16Campbell

Jonathan Campbell

United States

B.date27/06/1993

Age24 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

4Kappelhof

Johan Kappelhof

Netherlands

B.date05/08/1990

Age27 years

H1m80

positionCentral defender

2Polster

Matt Polster

United States

B.date08/06/1993

Age24 years

H1m83

positionRight full-back

28Lampson

Matt Lampson

United States

B.date06/09/1989

Age28 years

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
28	G	Matt Lampson		28	38	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	D	Jonathan Campbell		24	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Johan Kappelhof		27	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Matt Polster		24	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Brandon Vincent	6215	23	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	M	Drew Conner		23	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Dax McCarty		30	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	F	Nemanja Nikolics	9090+1	29	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	M	Arturo Alvarez	71	32	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	David Accam		26	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Luis Solignac		26	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.5 years

Average number of matches played for the team

D.C. United

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

17Brown62

Deshorn Brown

Jamaica

B.date22/12/1990

Age26 years

H1m88

positionCentre forward

8Sam

Lloyd Sam

Ghana

B.date27/09/1984

Age32 years

H1m73

positionRight Midfielder

10Acosta

Luciano Acosta

Argentina

B.date31/05/1994

Age23 years

H1m60

positionPlaymaker

13Arriola84

Paul Arriola

United States

B.date05/02/1995

Age22 years

H1m67

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

4Canouse

Russell Canouse

United States

B.date11/06/1995

Age22 years

H1m77

positionCentre Midfield

23Harkes22

Ian Harkes

United States

B.date30/03/1995

Age22 years

H1m80

positionDefensive Midfielder

14DeLeon

Nick DeLeon

United States

B.date17/01/1990

Age27 years

H1m77

positionLeft Midfielder

6Opare

Kofi Opare

Ghana

B.date12/10/1990

Age26 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

15Birnbaum78

Steven Birnbaum

United States

B.date23/01/1991

Age26 years

H1m89

positionCentral defender

3Odoi-Atsem

Chris Odoi-Atsem

United States

B.date27/05/1995

Age22 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

28Hamid

Bill Hamid

United States

B.date25/11/1990

Age26 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
28	D	Bill Hamid		26	201	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	D	Steven Birnbaum	78	26	108	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Kofi Opare		26	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Chris Odoi-Atsem		22	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	M	Ian Harkes	22	22	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Nick DeLeon		27	183	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Lloyd Sam		32	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Russell Canouse		22	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	M	Paul Arriola	84	22	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Luciano Acosta		23	62	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	F	Deshorn Brown	62	26	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

24.9 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
45	G	Richard Sanchez		23
66	D	João Meira	71	30	54	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Michael Harrington		31
14	M	Djordje Mihailovic		18
13	M	Brandt Bronico		22
10	F	David Arshakyan	90+1	23	15	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
50	G	Steve Clark		31
20	D	Jalen Robinson		23
22	D	Chris Korb		29
19	M	Zoltán Stieber	78	28	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Marcelo Sarvas		35
16	F	Patrick Mullins	62	25	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
27	F	Bruno Miranda	84	19	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Arturo Alvarez

Michael de Leeuw

OUT

Drew Conner

Juninho

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Chris Odoi-Atsem

Sean Franklin

OUT

Lloyd Sam

Zoltán Stieber

OUT

Deshorn Brown

Patrick Mullins

OUT

Ian Harkes

Marcelo Sarvas

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Veljko Paunovic

Success rate in this team:

35 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

41 %

Paunovic vs D.C. United

2 victories

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on September 16, 2017

Paunovic vs Olsen

2 victories

2 draws

1 loss

Latest figure on September 16, 2017

Manager

Age

Match num

Ben Olsen

283

Success rate in this team:

36 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

36 %

Olsen vs Chicago Fire

7 victories

7 draws

6 losses

Latest figure on September 16, 2017

Olsen vs Paunovic

1 victory

2 draws

2 losses

Latest figure on September 16, 2017

Referee

Ismail Elfath

4 victories	2 draws	7 losses	Chicago Fire13 matches	General total	D.C. United17 matches	8 victories	4 draws	5 losses
2 victories	1 draw	1 loss	Chicago Fire4 matches	Season total	D.C. United1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on August 26, 2023					Latest figure on September 18, 2022

4th official

Sorin Stoica

5 victories	1 draw	1 loss	Chicago Fire7 matches	General total	D.C. United6 matches	3 victories	1 draw	2 losses
3 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Chicago Fire3 matches	Season total	D.C. United2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 16, 2017					Latest figure on September 12, 2018

Video referee

Kevin Terry Jr.

5 victories	3 draws	4 losses	Chicago Fire12 matches	General total	D.C. United6 matches	2 victories	1 draw	3 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Chicago Fire1 match	Season total	D.C. United2 matches	0 victory	0 draw	2 losses
Latest figure on September 19, 2020					Latest figure on August 31, 2019

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Key figures

It's the first time in his career that Ian Harkes scores an own goal %comp

End of streak for Chicago Fire after 4 matches with at least one goal conceded at home (since 05/08/2017). It was the best streak for the club since 22/08/2015-06/03/2016 (6 matches).

Chicago Fire keeps its 33 matches with at least one goal scored at home running (since 02/04/2016). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 27/04/2002 (30 matches)

Read the next 13 key stats

General ranking

1	Toronto FC	62 pts	29 rd
2	New York City FC	51 pts	29 rd
3	Chicago Fire	48 pts	29 rd
4	Columbus Crew	44 pts	30 rd
5	Atlanta United	43 pts	27 rd

General ranking

7	Impact de Montréal	36 pts	28 rd
8	New England Revolution	35 pts	29 rd
9	Orlando City	35 pts	29 rd
10	Philadelphia Union	32 pts	28 rd
11	D.C. United	28 pts	29 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

VChicago Fire 4-0 Orlando City24/06/2017

VChicago Fire 4-0 Vancouver Whitecaps01/07/2017

VChicago Fire 4-1 New England Revolution05/08/2017

LChicago Fire 1-3 Toronto FC19/08/2017

LChicago Fire 1-2 Minnesota United26/08/2017

DChicago Fire 1-1 New York Red Bulls09/09/2017

Overall

LColumbus Crew 3-1 Chicago Fire12/08/2017

LCF Montréal 3-0 Chicago Fire16/08/2017

LChicago Fire 1-3 Toronto FC19/08/2017

LChicago Fire 1-2 Minnesota United26/08/2017

VCF Montréal 0-1 Chicago Fire02/09/2017

DChicago Fire 1-1 New York Red Bulls09/09/2017

Current form

Away

LPhiladelphia Union 1-0 D.C. United24/06/2017

LCF Montréal 2-0 D.C. United01/07/2017

LFC Dallas 4-2 D.C. United04/07/2017

LSeattle Sounders 4-3 D.C. United19/07/2017

LMinnesota United 4-0 D.C. United29/07/2017

VColorado Rapids 0-1 D.C. United19/08/2017

Overall

DD.C. United 1-1 Toronto FC05/08/2017

LD.C. United 0-1 Real Salt Lake13/08/2017

VColorado Rapids 0-1 D.C. United19/08/2017

VD.C. United 1-0 Atlanta United23/08/2017

VD.C. United 1-0 New England Revolution26/08/2017

LD.C. United 1-2 Orlando City09/09/2017

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Winless streak	3	1
Scoring streak	32	4
Conceding streak	4	1

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	1	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	1	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	10	5
Scoring streak	1	4
Conceding streak	0	1
Invincibility streak	1	0

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

3	General ranking (Competition total)	11
3	General ranking (Home / Away)	9
623	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	716
8	FBDB index ranking (National)	12

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

28	Number of games (Competition total)	28
14	Number of games (Home / Away)	13
13	Victories (Competition total)	8
10	Victories (Home / Away)	3
6	Draws (Competition total)	4
2	Draws (Home / Away)	1
9	Losses (Competition total)	16
2	Losses (Home / Away)	9

Goals

49	Goals scored (Competition total)	23
34	Goals scored (Home / Away)	12
37	Goals conceded (Competition total)	46
11	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	28
1.75	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	0.82
2.43	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.92
1.32	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.64
0.79	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2.15

Betting aid

20	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	12
10	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	6
10	Clean sheets (Competition total)	6
7	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
3	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	14
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	7
16	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	10
7	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	4
2-0 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-2 (4 times)

Bookings

40	Yellow cards (Competition total)	48
20	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	22
2	Red cards (Competition total)	2
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Nemanja Nikolics	17 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	5 goals	Luciano Acosta
Nemanja Nikolics	14 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Sébastien Le Toux
Nemanja Nikolics	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Lamar Neagle
Nemanja Nikolics	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Lamar Neagle
Michael de Leeuw	6 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	4 assists	Lloyd Sam
Michael de Leeuw	5 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	3 assists	Luciano Acosta
Nemanja Nikolics	1 goal during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal, 1 assist during the last 2 matches	Kofi Opare

Historical head to head

Home

33 matches

13 v

12 d

8 l

50 gf

37 ga

Away

34 matches

12 v

6 d

16 l

51 gf

58 ga

Total

67 matches

25 v

18 d

24 l

101 gf

95 ga

Historical head to head

Home

34 matches

16 v

6 d

12 l

58 gf

51 ga

Away

33 matches

8 v

12 d

13 l

37 gf

50 ga

Total

67 matches

24 v

18 d

25 l

95 gf

101 ga

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 0	October 30, 2005
Home	4 - 1	July 20, 2013

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	August 27, 2016
Away	2 - 0	August 07, 2013

Latest head to head

May 20, 2017 - MLS 2017

D.C. United

0 - 1

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

September 16, 2016 - MLS 2016

Chicago Fire

2 - 2

D.C. United logo D.C. United

August 27, 2016 - MLS 2016

D.C. United

6 - 2

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

April 30, 2016 - MLS 2016

Chicago Fire

1 - 1

D.C. United logo D.C. United

October 18, 2015 - MLS 2015

D.C. United

4 - 0

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

Best historical scorers against D.C. United

Chris Rolfe	7 goals	2005 - 2013
Jesse Marsch	7 goals	1998 - 2005
Damani Ralph	5 goals	2003 - 2004
Ante Razov	5 goals	1999 - 2003
Nate Jaqua	4 goals	2005 - 2006
David Accam	3 goals	2015 - 2017

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 02/05/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Chicago Fire

Jaime Moreno	10 goals	1998 - 2009
Christian Gómez	8 goals	2004 - 2009
Roy Lassiter	6 goals	1998 - 1999
Ben Olsen	5 goals	1998 - 2004
Bobby Boswell	4 goals	2005 - 2016
Luciano Emilio	4 goals	2007 - 2009

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 02/05/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs D.C. United

CJ Brown	40 matches	1998 - 2010
Logan Pause	33 matches	2003 - 2013
Chris Armas	30 matches	1998 - 2007
Gonzalo Segares	28 matches	2005 - 2014
Chris Rolfe	27 matches	2005 - 2014
Jesse Marsch	26 matches	1998 - 2005

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 02/05/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

Jaime Moreno	34 matches	1998 - 2010
Ben Olsen	29 matches	1998 - 2009
Bryan Namoff	29 matches	2002 - 2009
Clyde Simms	22 matches	2005 - 2011
Bobby Boswell	21 matches	2005 - 2017
Christian Gómez	20 matches	2004 - 2009

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 02/05/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Jesse Marsch

260 matches

18 matches

1996 - 2005

Patrick Nyarko

221 matches

44 matches

2008 - 2017

Chris Rolfe

209 matches

72 matches

2005 - 2016

Justin Mapp

207 matches

3 matches

2002 - 2010

Dema Kovalenko

125 matches

93 matches

1999 - 2005

Josh Wolff

105 matches

42 matches

1998 - 2012

Total : 22 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/04/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Brandon Prideaux

59 matches

137 matches

2002 - 2009

Tony Sanneh

36 matches

98 matches

1996 - 2006

Dema Kovalenko

125 matches

93 matches

1999 - 2005

Daniel Woolard

26 matches

81 matches

2008 - 2013

Chris Rolfe

209 matches

72 matches

2005 - 2016

David Vaudreuil

38 matches

57 matches

1996 - 2002

Total : 22 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/04/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	Toronto FC	62	29	18	8	3	63	26	+37
2	New York City FC	51	29	15	6	8	50	37	+13
3	Chicago Fire	48	29	14	6	9	52	37	+15
4	Columbus Crew	44	30	13	5	12	45	45	0
5	Atlanta United	43	27	12	7	8	57	35	+22
6	New York Red Bulls	41	27	12	5	10	41	36	+5
7	Impact de Montréal	36	28	10	6	12	44	46	-2
8	New England Revolution	35	29	10	5	14	45	51	-6
9	Orlando City	35	29	9	8	12	32	47	-15
10	Philadelphia Union	32	28	8	8	12	37	39	-2
11	D.C. United	28	29	8	4	17	23	49	-26

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Chicago Fire 3-0 D.C. United - September 16, 2017 / MLS 2017

Chicago Fire

3 - 0

D.C. United

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Paunovic vs D.C. United

Paunovic vs Olsen

Manager

Olsen vs Chicago Fire

Olsen vs Paunovic

Referee

4th official

Video referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against D.C. United

Best historical scorers against Chicago Fire

Players with most games played vs D.C. United

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

Post-match general ranking