With the season on the brink, Columbus Crew SC welcomes rival Chicago Fire to MAPFRE Stadium.
It’s the first of back-to-back, home-and-away games between the two clubs, who have only met once this Major League Soccer regular season. That was a pretty awful scoreless draw in Week 3.
The two sides also met in the U.S. Open Cup, with the Fire grabbing two first-half goals and holding on for a 2-1 result that eliminated (again) Crew SC from the cup competition.
Now Chicago — the only team in the league with a worse record than Columbus — can eliminate the Black & Gold again, this time from posteason contention.