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Metrostars 3-2 Chicago Fire - July 25, 1998 / MLS 1998

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MLS 1998 - Round 23 - Eastern Conference

Giants Stadium - East Rutherford - United States

July 25, 1998 - 15:00

15 130

Metrostars

3 - 2

Chicago Fire

Assist by Marcelo VegaEduardo Hurtado

Miles Joseph

25'

Assist by Miles JosephBrian Kelly

45'

20'

Lubos Kubik

86'

Roman KoseckiAssist by Ante Razov

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6' - Goal Eduardo Hurtado6

19' - Yellow card Mike Sorber19

20' - Goal Lubos Kubik

25' - Goal Miles Joseph25

25' - Substitution Ritchie Kotschauis substituted by Diego Gutierrez

38' - Yellow card Mike Duhaney38

45' - Goal Brian Kelly45

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46' - Substitution Piotr Nowakis substituted by Frank Klopas

54' - Yellow card Marcelo Vega54

55' - Yellow card Chris Armas

62' - Substitution Miles Josephis substituted by Mike Petke62

70' - Yellow card Alexi Lalas70

72' - Substitution Giovanni Savareseis substituted by Jim Rooney72

75' - Substitution Josh Kelleris substituted by Josh Wolff

83' - Yellow card Francis Okaroh

86' - Goal Roman Kosecki

87' - Substitution Eduardo Hurtadois substituted by Kerry Zavagnin87

89' - Red card Jim Rooney89

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Metrostars

3 - 2

Chicago Fire

Metrostars Chicago Fire

Team line-ups

Metrostars

1 Meola

Tony Meola

United States

B.date21/02/1969

Age29 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

22 Lalas70

Alexi Lalas

United States

B.date01/06/1970

Age28 years

H1m91

positionCentral defender

5 Palacios

Arley Palacios

Colombia

B.date10/06/1973

Age25 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

8 Duhaney38

Mike Duhaney

United States

B.date05/04/1974

Age24 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

4 Soñora

Diego Soñora

Argentina

B.date17/09/1969

Age28 years

H1m73

positionRight full-back

6 Sorber19

Mike Sorber

United States

B.date14/05/1971

Age27 years

H1m77

positionDefensive Midfielder

19 Joseph2562

Miles Joseph

United States

B.date02/05/1974

Age24 years

H1m75

positionRight Midfielder

20 Kelly45

Brian Kelly

United States

B.date06/10/1974

Age23 years

H1m70

positionLeft Offensive Midfielder

9 Vega54

Marcelo Vega

Chile

B.date12/08/1971

Age26 years

H1m77

positionOffensive Midfielder

29 Hurtado687

Eduardo Hurtado

Ecuador

B.date02/12/1969

Age28 years

H1m90

positionForward

17 Savarese72

Giovanni Savarese

Venezuela

B.date14/07/1971

Age27 years

H1m83

positionForward

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
1	G	Tony Meola		29	87	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Alexi Lalas	70	28	16	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Arley Palacios		25	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	D	Mike Duhaney	38	24	5	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Diego Soñora		28	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Mike Sorber	19	27	45	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Miles Joseph	2562	24	68	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Brian Kelly	45	23	43	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Marcelo Vega	54	26	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
29	F	Eduardo Hurtado	687	28	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	F	Giovanni Savarese	72	27	82	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.3 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Chicago Fire

18 Thornton

Zach Thornton

United States

B.date10/10/1973

Age24 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

5 Kubik20

Lubos Kubik

Czech Republic

B.date20/01/1964

Age34 years

H1m86

positionSweeper

3 Kotschau25

Ritchie Kotschau

United States

B.date22/11/1975

Age22 years

H1m78

positionDefender

2 Brown

CJ Brown

United States

B.date15/05/1975

Age23 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

20 Okaroh83

Francis Okaroh

Nigeria

B.date25/08/1963

Age34 years

H1m83

positionDefender

14 Armas55

Chris Armas

United States

B.date27/08/1972

Age25 years

H1m70

positionDefensive Midfielder

10 Nowak46

Piotr Nowak

Poland

B.date05/07/1964

Age34 years

H1m68

positionCentre Midfield

19 Keller75

Josh Keller

United States

B.date16/02/1975

Age23 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

15 Marsch

Jesse Marsch

United States

B.date08/11/1973

Age24 years

H1m80

positionCentre Midfield

11 Kosecki86

Roman Kosecki

Poland

B.date15/02/1966

Age32 years

H1m76

positionOffensive Midfielder

12 Razov

Ante Razov

United States

B.date02/03/1974

Age24 years

H1m85

positionForward

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
18	G	Zach Thornton		24	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Lubos Kubik	20	34	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Ritchie Kotschau	25	22	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	CJ Brown		23	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	D	Francis Okaroh	83	34	18	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Chris Armas	55	25	22	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Piotr Nowak	46	34	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	M	Josh Keller	75	23	2	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Jesse Marsch		24	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
11	M	Roman Kosecki	86	32	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	F	Ante Razov		24	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

27.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
12	D	Mike Petke	62	22	17	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	D	Kerry Zavagnin	87	24	35	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	M	Jim Rooney	7289	29	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
8	M	Diego Gutierrez	25	25	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
41	F	Frank Klopas	46	31	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	F	Josh Wolff	75	21	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Miles Joseph

Tab Ramos

OUT

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Zach Thornton

Jorge Campos

OUT

Ante Razov

Josh Wolff

OUT

Piotr Nowak

Diego Gutierrez

OUT

Ritchie Kotschau

Andrew Lewis

OUT

Francis Okaroh

Frank Klopas

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Alfonso Mondelo

Success rate in this team:

55 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Mondelo vs Chicago Fire

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on July 25, 1998

Mondelo vs Bradley

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on July 25, 1998

Manager

Age

Match num

Bob Bradley

Success rate in this team:

57 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

57 %

Bradley vs Metrostars

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on July 25, 1998

Bradley vs Mondelo

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on July 25, 1998

Referee

Brian Hall

7 victories	4 draws	19 losses	Metrostars30 matches	General total	Chicago Fire25 matches	10 victories	3 draws	12 losses
1 victory	0 draw	3 losses	Metrostars4 matches	Season total	Chicago Fire1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on June 10, 2007					Latest figure on July 04, 2007

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Comments

Key figures

Chicago Fire keeps its 6 consecutive matches without a draw away from home running (since 14/06/1998). It's a record streak. The first of history

Metrostars keeps its 9 matches with at least one goal scored at home running (since 16/05/1998). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 26/04/1997 (6 matches)

Chicago Fire keeps its 3 consecutive losses away from home running (since 09/07/1998). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 11/04/1998 (2 matches)

Read the next 18 key stats

General ranking

1	D.C. United	44 pts	23 rd
2	Metrostars	31 pts	20 rd
3	Columbus Crew	27 pts	19 rd
4	Tampa Bay Mutiny	18 pts	22 rd
5	New England Revolution	16 pts	20 rd

General ranking

No ranking available

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LMetrostars 1-2 Tampa Bay Mutiny03/06/1998

VMetrostars 3-1 Miami Fusion 1997-200113/06/1998

VMetrostars 5-3 New England Revolution24/06/1998

VMetrostars 1-0 Virginia Beach Mariners08/07/1998

LMetrostars 1-2 Tampa Bay Mutiny11/07/1998

VMetrostars 3-0 Columbus Crew19/07/1998

Overall

VMetrostars 5-3 New England Revolution24/06/1998

LColorado Rapids 1-0 Metrostars04/07/1998

VMetrostars 1-0 Virginia Beach Mariners08/07/1998

LMetrostars 1-2 Tampa Bay Mutiny11/07/1998

VMetrostars 3-0 Columbus Crew19/07/1998

VMetrostars 4-0 Tampa Bay Mutiny22/07/1998

Current form

Away

DLos Angeles Galaxy 1-1 Chicago Fire30/05/1998

VNew England Revolution 1-3 Chicago Fire14/06/1998

VFC Dallas 0-1 Chicago Fire04/07/1998

VChicago Sockers 1-3 Chicago Fire06/07/1998

LColumbus Crew 3-0 Chicago Fire09/07/1998

LD.C. United 4-1 Chicago Fire18/07/1998

Overall

VChicago Fire 4-1 FC Dallas01/07/1998

VFC Dallas 0-1 Chicago Fire04/07/1998

VChicago Sockers 1-3 Chicago Fire06/07/1998

LColumbus Crew 3-0 Chicago Fire09/07/1998

LD.C. United 4-1 Chicago Fire18/07/1998

DChicago Fire 1-1 San Jose Earthquakes22/07/1998

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	1	2
Unbeaten streak	1	2
Drawless streak	24	10
Scoring streak	8	4
Invincibility streak	1	2

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	0	1
Loosing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	2	3
Drawless streak	5	0
Scoring streak	1	2
Conceding streak	3	4

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

19	Number of games (Competition total)	20
10	Number of games (Home / Away)	10
9	Victories (Competition total)	12
6	Victories (Home / Away)	4
1	Draws (Competition total)	2
0	Draws (Home / Away)	2
9	Losses (Competition total)	6
4	Losses (Home / Away)	4

Goals

35	Goals scored (Competition total)	41
27	Goals scored (Home / Away)	14
32	Goals conceded (Competition total)	25
20	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	16
1.84	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	2.05
2.7	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	1.4
1.68	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.25
2	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.6

Betting aid

12	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	11
9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	5
3	Clean sheets (Competition total)	6
1	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	2
4	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	4
1	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	3
12	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	10
8	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	5
4-3 (2 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (2 times)

Bookings

30	Yellow cards (Competition total)	22
13	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	10
4	Red cards (Competition total)	1
3	Red cards (Home / Away)	0

Key players

Giovanni Savarese	9 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	7 goals	Roman Kosecki
Eduardo Hurtado	7 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	3 goals	Jerzy Podbrozny
-		Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Lubos Kubik
Eduardo Hurtado	7 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	10 assists	Jerzy Podbrozny
Eduardo Hurtado	4 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	4 assists	Piotr Nowak
Eduardo Hurtado	5 goals, 7 assists during the last 11 matches	The fittest player	5 goals, 10 assists during the last 13 matches	Jerzy Podbrozny

Historical head to head

Away

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

1 gf

0 ga

Total

1 match

1 v

0 d

0 l

1 gf

0 ga

Historical head to head

Home

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

1 ga

Total

1 match

0 v

0 d

1 l

0 gf

1 ga

Largest victory

Overall	1 - 0	April 17, 1998
Home	No success yet

Largest victory

No success yet

Latest head to head

April 17, 1998 - MLS 1998

Chicago Fire

0 - 1

Metrostars logo Metrostars

Best historical scorers against Chicago Fire

Alexi Lalas

1 goal

1998 - 1998

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/04/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Metrostars

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/04/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

Jim Rooney	1 match	1998 - 1998
Mike Sorber	1 match	1998 - 1998
Giovanni Savarese	1 match	1998 - 1998
Tony Meola	1 match	1998 - 1998
Mark Semioli	1 match	1998 - 1998
Kerry Zavagnin	1 match	1998 - 1998

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/04/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Metrostars

Jorge Salcedo	1 match	1998 - 1998
Chris Armas	1 match	1998 - 1998
Ante Razov	1 match	1998 - 1998
Frank Klopas	1 match	1998 - 1998
Jerzy Podbrozny	1 match	1998 - 1998
Jorge Campos	1 match	1998 - 1998

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 17/04/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Manny Lagos

24 matches

1 match

1996 - 1998

Andrew Lewis

20 matches

15 matches

1997 - 1998

Zach Thornton

6 matches

19 matches

1996 - 1998

Total : 3 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/04/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Zach Thornton

6 matches

19 matches

1996 - 1998

Andrew Lewis

20 matches

15 matches

1997 - 1998

Manny Lagos

24 matches

1 match

1996 - 1998

Total : 3 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 27/04/1996. 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	D.C. United	44	23	18	7	5	54	33	+21
2	Metrostars	31	20	11	1	9	38	34	+4
3	Columbus Crew	27	19	9	4	10	34	28	+6
4	Tampa Bay Mutiny	18	22	6	3	16	26	39	-13
5	New England Revolution	16	20	6	4	14	34	43	-9
6	Miami Fusion 1997-2001	14	19	8	5	11	19	40	-21

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Metrostars 3-2 Chicago Fire - July 25, 1998 / MLS 1998

Metrostars

3 - 2

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

Mondelo vs Chicago Fire

Mondelo vs Bradley

Manager

Bradley vs Metrostars

Bradley vs Mondelo

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 Metrostars

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

Players with most games played vs Metrostars

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

Post-match general ranking