The Soft Reset: Chicago Fire vs Real Salt Lake, MLS Week 16 Preview

Jeff Swinger-USA TODAY Sports “It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.”

So says the old cliche. And so says our hopes for the future. The Fire’s struggles in the first half of the season have been well documented. From poor defense to inefficient finishing to questionable coaching, we’ve seen it all in the first half of the year.

Anything that can go wrong, has.

But this is MLS. There’s nothing but examples of teams laying down in the first half, only to make something of themselves in the second. The 2016 Seattle Sounders only won six of their first twenty games, and had to sneak into the post season. They won it all.

The Fire have the firepower to do the same. They create the second most…