On a weekend of fireworks, Ignacio Aliseda set off some of his own at Soldier Field on Saturday night in the Fire’s 3-0 win over Atlanta United.
Twenty-six games into his MLS career, Aliseda needed a breakout game. A designated player signing before the 2020 season, Aliseda showed the quality on which the Fire based their reported $3 million+ investment to sign him from Defensa in Argentina only in spurts through his first season and played only 314 minutes in the first ten matches of his second.
With two first half goals (the first multi-goal game of his professional career) and an assist for Przemyslaw Frankowski for the Fire’s third, Aliseda provided a perfect pregame performance for the city’s Fourth of July celebrations on the lakefront.