Welcome to part 1 of the fourth annual Chicago Fire Retrospective. Where we take a look at the season that just happened, and more often than not, try to figure out what went wrong.
To say that we had high hopes for the 2021 Chicago Fire would kind of be a lie. After last season’s effort that had them finishing just outside the playoff positions in a truncated season due to COVID-19 (and as we’d find out later probably would have been a playoff team if Inter Miami had not fudged the books and broken the MLS roster rules) you would have expected the Fire to bring in and bolster the squad in a way that screamed intent.