A 0-0 draw is rarely a fun match to watch, unless it ends in a penalty shootout...or maybe a brawl. Atlanta United meandered up to the Windy City to face the Chicago Fire Saturday evening in a match that had neither penalties nor a brawl, and it certainly didn’t have any goals. Instead, the match carried a sense of foreboding apropos of Atlanta’s playoff hopes, and though the final scoreline was less than ideal, a fresh clean sheet, a point, and some positivity were scrounged from Soldier Field.
The Five Stripes overcame their habit of giving away early, silly goals that have plagued them over the past couple of weeks despite the center back corp of Juanjo Purata, Alan Franco, and George Campbell having their hands full dealing with the likes of Xherdan Shaqiri and Jhon Durán.