As Major League Soccer get set to pause for the upcoming Copa America Centenario, the club's week away from training and competition seems a natural time to look back on the first third of the 2016 Chicago Fire season and break down their recent run of form. Here's a quick look at what we've seen on the pitch 12 games into Veljko Paunovic's head coaching tenure and what may look a little different in the remaining months of the season:
How Great:
The defense has made major strides in the first third of the 2016 season, after coming off a 2015 season that saw them finish with a league-worst minus-15 goal differential and an average goals allowed per game of just over 1.