Down the Stretch They Come: Sporting Kansas City vs Chicago Fire MLS Preview

We’ve reached the last 2 months of the season and somehow someway, the Chicago Fire are still in playoff contention. If you had a chance to read the boss’s playoff math post, you’d be forgiven for thinking the playoff chances are slim to none, and slim is packing their bags trying to catch the train out of town.

I, however, am looking at this from a less mathy point of view, because we know that the Fire will be kept in this race by the teams around them. The Red Bulls and DC is an even matchup where DC is perfectly capable of dropping points. The same can be said for Columbus, Atlanta, and Miami, the teams that are just ahead of the Fire. Montreal is always good for a late-season collapse…