Purgatory: Toronto FC vs Chicago Fire MLS Preview

Kamil Krzaczynski-USA TODAY Sports In some ways, Raphael Wicky was done dirty by the higher-ups at the Chicago Fire. Joe Mansueto and Georg Heitz did not live up to their end of the bargain. For two years, they handed Wicky a roster cobbled together with painter’s tape and central midfielders that unless everything went right, was doomed to fail. A global pandemic putting a halt to international transfers didn’t help much, but the fact of the matter is, Wicky was not provided the tools to get the job done.

But here we are. We now have 6 games left of purgatory before we can start looking toward the new era, and in the serendipity of timing, the Fire are playing Toronto FC, one of the two…