The Red Bulls came from behind to beat the Fire, 2-1, in Chicago on April 30. New York has won two matches against the Fire in a single regular season only once since 2008, winning two of three regular season encounters in 2015.
New York Red Bulls dropped their first away points of the season in a 1-1 draw at the Union on Saturday (W5 D1) but are still yet to win a home match this season (D3 L2). Failure to beat Chicago would make the Red Bulls just the seventh team in MLS history to go winless in their first six home games of a season.
Chicago is winless in its last seven MLS games (D2 L5) including losing the last four in a row. The Fire have had four losing streaks of at least five matches in the club’s MLS history, most recently an eight-game run in July-August 2018.
No team has faced fewer shots than the Red Bulls this season, with opponents recording just 8.4 attempts per match. While New York has held just 43.2 percent possession this season, it’s out-shot opponents in 10 of its 11 matches, only failing to do so against the Union on Saturday (17-10).
The Fire are the lowest scoring team in MLS this season with just eight goals. Chicago has scored with a league-worst 6.5 percent of their shots this season, including just three of its 76 attempts since the start of April (3.9%).
