Nashville SC is unbeaten in four all-time meetings with the Chicago Fire (W2 D2), including a 3-0 victory at GEODIS Park on May 6. The lone meeting in Chicago, however, was a scoreless draw, in September 2021.
The Chicago Fire have lost each of its last two home matches in all competitions with losses to the Houston Dynamo FC (in the U.S. Open Cup) and the Columbus Crew SC, after going unbeaten in 11 straight home games prior to that (W4 D7). The Chicago Fire haven’t lost three straight home games in a single season since doing so in 2010 in MLS/SuperLiga play.
Nashville SC defeated D. C. United on Saturday despite Walker Zimmerman being sent off in the 64′. It was just the fifth time that a Nashville SC player had been sent off in an MLS match since the team joined MLS in 2020 with only the Columbus Crew SC (2) having fewer in that span (among teams that have played last four seasons).
Against Orlando City SC over the weekend, Xherdan Shaqiri scored the Chicago Fire’s lone goal on a second-half penalty kick. Since his MLS debut last season, Shaqiri is five-for-five on penalty kicks as 55.6% (5/9) of his MLS goals have come from the spot.
Hany Mukhtar has score two hat-tricks against the Chicago Fire, one in May and one in July 2021. Mukhtar is one of seven players with two hat-tricks against a single MLS team while no one has done so three different times.
