As good as the Fire’s start to the season has been, in the back of my head, the lingering thought that they’ve gotten lucky has always been lurking. They caught SKC without their Designated Players, Dallas without their national teamers, and by and large have been paired against teams on the lower half of the MLS quality scale.
That changes this weekend when they play against the LA Galaxy. This is the first real team of quality, and it will tell us all we need to know about how much the Fire have come and how far they still need to go to become the kind of team they want to be.