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Kansas City 1-0 Chicago Fire - July 06, 2019 / MLS 2019

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MLS 2019 - Journée 18 - Conférence Ouest

Children's Mercy Park - Kansas City - United States

July 06, 2019 - 19:30

18 570

Kansas City

1 - 0

Chicago Fire

Assist by Felipe GutiérrezYohan Croizet

14'

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14' - Goal Yohan Croizet14

44' - Yellow card Fabian Herbers

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59' - Substitution Aleksandar Kataiis substituted by Nemanja Nikolics

66' - Substitution Yohan Croizetis substituted by Krisztián Németh66

67' - Yellow card Felipe Gutiérrez67

67' - Substitution Grant Lillardis substituted by Marcelo

69' - Yellow card Dax McCarty

73' - Substitution Daniel Sallóiis substituted by Johnny Russell73

80' - Substitution Fabian Herbersis substituted by Diego Campos

83' - Yellow card Diego Campos

84' - Substitution Gedion Zelalemis substituted by Gianluca Busio84

88' - Yellow card Botond Barath88

90' - Yellow card Bastian Schweinsteiger

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Kansas City

1 - 0

Chicago Fire

Kansas City Chicago Fire

Team line-ups

Kansas City

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

10Croizet1466

Yohan Croizet

France

B.date15/02/1992

Age27 years

H1m78

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

20Sallói73

Daniel Sallói

Hungary

B.date19/07/1996

Age22 years

H1m84

positionLeft Winger

12Gerso

Gerso

Guinea-Bissau

B.date23/02/1991

Age28 years

H1m72

positionStriker

24Zelalem84

Gedion Zelalem

United States

B.date26/01/1997

Age22 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

21Gutiérrez67

Felipe Gutiérrez

Chile

B.date08/10/1990

Age28 years

H1m75

positionLeft central midfielder

6Ilie

Ilie

Spain

B.date21/11/1990

Age28 years

H1m81

positionDefensive Midfielder

15Sinovic

Seth Sinovic

United States

B.date28/01/1987

Age32 years

H1m78

positionLeft full-back

5Besler

Matt Besler

United States

B.date11/02/1987

Age32 years

H1m82

positionLeft central defender

2Barath88

Botond Barath

Hungary

B.date21/04/1992

Age27 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

8Zusi

Graham Zusi

United States

B.date18/08/1986

Age32 years

H1m78

positionRight full-back

29Melia

Tim Melia

United States

B.date15/05/1986

Age33 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
29	G	Tim Melia		33	156	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Botond Barath	88	27	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Matt Besler		32	324	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	D	Seth Sinovic		32	251	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	D	Graham Zusi		32	314	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Ilie		28	106	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	M	Gedion Zelalem	84	22	7	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Felipe Gutiérrez	67	28	50	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Yohan Croizet	1466	27	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Daniel Sallói	73	22	83	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	M	Gerso		28	93	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

133

Chicago Fire

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

9Sapong

C.J. Sapong

United States

B.date27/12/1988

Age30 years

H1m85

positionStriker

11Frankowski

Przemyslaw Frankowski

Poland

B.date12/04/1995

Age24 years

H1m75

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

10Katai59

Aleksandar Katai

Serbia

B.date06/02/1991

Age28 years

H1m82

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

20Gaitán

Nicolás Gaitán

Argentina

B.date23/02/1988

Age31 years

H1m73

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

21Herbers8044

Fabian Herbers

Germany

B.date17/08/1993

Age25 years

H1m83

positionRight Midfielder

6McCarty69

Dax McCarty

United States

B.date30/04/1987

Age32 years

H1m75

positionBox-to-box midfielder

15Lillard67

Grant Lillard

United States

B.date05/12/1995

Age23 years

H1m93

positionLeft central defender

5Calvo

Francisco Calvo

Costa Rica

B.date08/07/1992

Age26 years

H1m81

positionLeft central defender

31Schweinsteiger90

Bastian Schweinsteiger

Germany

B.date01/08/1984

Age34 years

H1m83

positionBox-to-box midfielder

13Bronico

Brandt Bronico

United States

B.date20/06/1995

Age24 years

H1m73

positionOffensive Midfielder

27Kronholm

Kenneth Kronholm

Germany

B.date14/10/1985

Age33 years

H1m89

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
27	G	Kenneth Kronholm		33	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	D	Grant Lillard	67	23	11	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Francisco Calvo		26	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	M	Fabian Herbers	8044	25	10	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
31	D	Bastian Schweinsteiger	90	34	80	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Dax McCarty	69	32	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Aleksandar Katai	59	28	55	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	D	Brandt Bronico		24	47	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Nicolás Gaitán		31	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Przemyslaw Frankowski		24	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	C.J. Sapong		30	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Adrian Zendejas		23
16	D	Graham Smith		23
13	M	Gianluca Busio	84	17	24	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Nicolas Hasler		28
30	M	Benny Feilhaber		34
9	F	Krisztián Németh	66	30	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Johnny Russell	73	29	57	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
45	G	Richard Sanchez		25
2	D	Marcelo	67	29	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
36	D	Andre Reynolds		18
17	M	Diego Campos	8083	23	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	F	Nemanja Nikolics	59	31	90	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	F	Amando Moreno		23
18	F	Cristian Martínez		22

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Gedion Zelalem

Benny Feilhaber

OUT

Yohan Croizet

Krisztián Németh

OUT

Botond Barath

Andreu Fontàs

OUT

Graham Zusi

Nicolas Hasler

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Grant Lillard

Jorge Luis Corrales

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Peter Vermes

401

Success rate in this team:

43 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

43 %

Vermes vs Chicago Fire

8 victories

4 draws

7 losses

Latest figure on July 06, 2019

Vermes vs Paunovic

3 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on July 06, 2019

Manager

Age

Match num

Veljko Paunovic

134

Success rate in this team:

31 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

35 %

Paunovic vs Kansas City

1 victory

0 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on July 06, 2019

Paunovic vs Vermes

1 victory

0 draw

3 losses

Latest figure on July 06, 2019

Referee

Joe Dickerson

2 victories	2 draws	5 losses	Kansas City9 matches	General total	Chicago Fire8 matches	3 victories	2 draws	3 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Kansas City1 match	Season total	Chicago Fire3 matches	1 victory	0 draw	2 losses
Latest figure on April 08, 2023					Latest figure on October 04, 2023

4th official

Mark Allatin

6 victories	1 draw	2 losses	Kansas City9 matches	General total	Chicago Fire4 matches	1 victory	0 draw	3 losses
3 victories	0 draw	0 loss	Kansas City3 matches	Season total	Chicago Fire2 matches	0 victory	0 draw	2 losses
Latest figure on October 25, 2023					Latest figure on August 27, 2022

Video referee

Edvin Jurisevic

7 victories	3 draws	4 losses	Kansas City14 matches	General total	Chicago Fire5 matches	1 victory	2 draws	2 losses
3 victories	0 draw	1 loss	Kansas City4 matches	Season total	Chicago Fire2 matches	1 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on December 03, 2020					Latest figure on October 24, 2020

Videos

July 08, 2019

Comments

Key figures

Only back at the time of Bob Bradley head of Chicago Fire (30/10/1997-05/10/2002), you can see a manager go over Veljko Paunovic with 1.48 goals scored per game in Major League Soccer (1.77).

No Chicago Fire manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Veljko Paunovic has reached 43% of losses .

Peter Vermes has registered 400 goal(s) conceded in Major League Soccer since the 04/08/2009 as the manager of Sporting Kansas City next after this match..

Read the next 9 key stats

General ranking

-1	7	Houston Dynamo	27 pts	18 rd
-1	8	Real Salt Lake	26 pts	19 rd
+3	9	Sporting Kansas City	22 pts	19 rd
-1	10	Portland Timbers	20 pts	16 rd
-1	11	Vancouver Whitecaps	20 pts	20 rd

General ranking

No ranking available

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DSporting Kansas City 4-4 New England Revolution27/04/2019

LSporting Kansas City 0-3 Atlanta United05/05/2019

DSporting Kansas City 1-1 Vancouver Whitecaps18/05/2019

VSporting Kansas City 3-2 Seattle Sounders26/05/2019

LSporting Kansas City 0-2 Los Angeles Galaxy29/05/2019

LSporting Kansas City 1-5 Los Angeles FC03/07/2019

Overall

DHouston Dynamo 1-1 Sporting Kansas City01/06/2019

DToronto FC 2-2 Sporting Kansas City07/06/2019

LMinnesota United 4-1 Sporting Kansas City12/06/2019

VColumbus Crew 0-1 Sporting Kansas City23/06/2019

LReal Salt Lake 2-0 Sporting Kansas City29/06/2019

LSporting Kansas City 1-5 Los Angeles FC03/07/2019

Current form

Away

LCF Montréal 1-0 Chicago Fire28/04/2019

DLos Angeles FC 0-0 Chicago Fire04/05/2019

LSan Jose Earthquakes 4-1 Chicago Fire18/05/2019

DD.C. United 3-3 Chicago Fire29/05/2019

LAtlanta United 2-0 Chicago Fire01/06/2019

LNew York Red Bulls 3-1 Chicago Fire28/06/2019

Overall

DD.C. United 3-3 Chicago Fire29/05/2019

LAtlanta United 2-0 Chicago Fire01/06/2019

LSaint Louis FC 2-1 Chicago Fire11/06/2019

DChicago Fire 1-1 Real Salt Lake22/06/2019

LNew York Red Bulls 3-1 Chicago Fire28/06/2019

VChicago Fire 5-1 Atlanta United03/07/2019

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Loosing streak	2	2
Winless streak	2	2
Drawless streak	3	4
Scoring streak	1	1
Conceding streak	9	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	20	0
Drawless streak	2	2
Scoring streak	1	4
Conceding streak	4	8

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

582	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	974
5	FBDB index ranking (National)	20

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

18	Number of games (Competition total)	19
9	Number of games (Home / Away)	9
4	Victories (Competition total)	5
3	Victories (Home / Away)	0
7	Draws (Competition total)	7
3	Draws (Home / Away)	3
7	Losses (Competition total)	7
3	Losses (Home / Away)	6

Goals

28	Goals scored (Competition total)	31
20	Goals scored (Home / Away)	8
34	Goals conceded (Competition total)	28
20	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	18
1.56	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.63
2.22	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.89
1.89	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.47
2.22	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	2

Betting aid

9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	9
6	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	5
2	Clean sheets (Competition total)	4
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	1
4	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	4
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	4
12	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	12
6	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	5
2-0 (1 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (2 times)

Bookings

38	Yellow cards (Competition total)	36
17	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	20
2	Red cards (Competition total)	1
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Krisztián Németh	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	8 goals	C.J. Sapong
Krisztián Németh	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	C.J. Sapong
Felipe Gutiérrez	4 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Nemanja Nikolics
Felipe Gutiérrez	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Ilie	4 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	7 assists	Nicolás Gaitán
Ilie	3 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	1 assist	Bastian Schweinsteiger
Ilie	1 assist during the last match	The fittest player	1 goal, 3 assists during the last match	Nicolás Gaitán

Historical head to head

Home

31 matches

13 v

10 d

8 l

42 gf

41 ga

Away

26 matches

5 v

2 d

19 l

26 gf

53 ga

Total

57 matches

18 v

12 d

27 l

68 gf

94 ga

Historical head to head

Home

26 matches

19 v

2 d

5 l

53 gf

26 ga

Away

31 matches

8 v

10 d

13 l

41 gf

42 ga

Total

57 matches

27 v

12 d

18 l

94 gf

68 ga

Largest victory

Overall	3 - 0	August 19, 2005
Home	3 - 0	August 19, 2005

Largest victory

Overall	7 - 0	July 04, 2001
Away	7 - 0	July 04, 2001

Latest head to head

March 10, 2018 - MLS 2018

Chicago Fire

3 - 4

Kansas City

July 29, 2017 - MLS 2017

Kansas City

3 - 2

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

July 13, 2016 - MLS 2016

Chicago Fire

1 - 0

Kansas City

May 03, 2015 - MLS 2015

Kansas City

1 - 0

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

October 10, 2014 - MLS 2014

Kansas City

2 - 0

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

Best historical scorers against Chicago Fire

Scott Sealy	5 goals	2005 - 2007
Josh Wolff	5 goals	2004 - 2009
Preki	4 goals	2000 - 2005
Mo Johnston	4 goals	1998 - 1999
Graham Zusi	4 goals	2012 - 2014
Dom Dwyer	3 goals	2014 - 2014

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/04/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Kansas City

Ante Razov	9 goals	1998 - 2003
Hristo Stoichkov	5 goals	2000 - 2002
Justin Mapp	4 goals	2003 - 2006
Piotr Nowak	4 goals	1999 - 2001
Diego Gutierrez	4 goals	1999 - 2000
Chad Barrett	4 goals	2006 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/04/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

Kerry Zavagnin	26 matches	2000 - 2008
Nick Garcia	24 matches	2000 - 2007
Davy Arnaud	23 matches	2003 - 2011
Chris Klein	22 matches	1998 - 2005
James Conrad	21 matches	2003 - 2010
Josh Wolff	19 matches	2003 - 2010

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/04/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Kansas City

CJ Brown	33 matches	1998 - 2010
Logan Pause	31 matches	2003 - 2014
Zach Thornton	25 matches	1998 - 2006
Chris Armas	24 matches	1998 - 2007
Jesse Marsch	23 matches	1998 - 2005
Diego Gutierrez	21 matches	1998 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 08/04/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Michael Harrington

169 matches

29 matches

2007 - 2017

Josh Wolff

164 matches

105 matches

1998 - 2010

Diego Gutierrez

147 matches

197 matches

1996 - 2008

C.J. Sapong

142 matches

19 matches

2011 - 2019

Kevin Ellis

90 matches

22 matches

2011 - 2018

Brandon Prideaux

81 matches

59 matches

1999 - 2009

Total : 19 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

Justin Mapp

6 matches

207 matches

2003 - 2016

Diego Gutierrez

147 matches

197 matches

1996 - 2008

Jalil Anibaba

17 matches

108 matches

2011 - 2015

Josh Wolff

164 matches

105 matches

1998 - 2010

Brandon Prideaux

81 matches

59 matches

1999 - 2009

Frank Klopas

56 matches

50 matches

1996 - 1999

Total : 19 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	Los Angeles FC	43	19	13	4	2	50	16	+34
2	Los Angeles Galaxy	34	19	11	1	7	26	22	+4
+13	Seattle Sounders	32	19	9	5	5	29	25	+4
+14	Minnesota United	30	19	9	3	7	36	29	+7
-25	FC Dallas	29	20	8	5	7	29	25	+4
+26	San Jose Earthquakes	28	19	8	4	7	30	30	0
-17	Houston Dynamo	27	18	8	3	7	28	25	+3
-18	Real Salt Lake	26	19	8	2	9	25	29	-4
+39	Sporting Kansas City	22	19	5	7	7	29	34	-5
-110	Portland Timbers	20	16	6	2	8	25	28	-3
-111	Vancouver Whitecaps	20	20	4	8	8	22	31	-9
-112	Colorado Rapids	19	19	5	4	10	29	38	-9

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Kansas City 1-0 Chicago Fire - July 06, 2019 / MLS 2019

Kansas City

1 - 0

Chicago Fire

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

Vermes vs Chicago Fire

Vermes vs Paunovic

Manager

Paunovic vs Kansas City

Paunovic vs Vermes

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 Chicago Fire

Best historical scorers against Kansas City

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

Players with most games played vs Kansas City

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

Post-match general ranking