Atlanta United haven’t won an away match in league play yet this season. It’ll look to change that on Saturday in an Independence Day weekend contest at Soldier Field against a Chicago Fire FC club that nearly made the MLS Cup playoffs last season but have struggled mightly out of the gate, scoring just 7 goals through 10 matches en route to a 1-7-2 mark. It has Raphael Wicky on the hot seat as he’ll be forced to turn the fortunes of the last-place fire.
Atlanta, of course, have troubles of its own. We knew from the injury report that Emerson Hyndman, Franco Ibarra, Jürgen Damm and Mattheus Rossetto were out and that Josef Martinez was questionable following his return from international duty at Copa America.