Montreal Impact 3 (Piatti 6, 38; Mancuso 36 pk)
Chicago Fire 0
There is a tendency - especially pronounced among supporters of teams whose outcomes have taken a sudden turn for the worse - to gesture vaguely towards the concept of balance. We weren’t bad, you see - we were simply due for some ill tidings, like a football club is a small pasture in a larger ecosystem, sure to see its share of both rain and sun.
That idea is horseshit. What’s more, it’s reductive, sparing terrible football teams derision at the price of devaluing winners, undermining each in turn.