Match Centre: Chicago Fire vs Sporting KC
Zinckernagel 51′Zinckernagel 65′Cuypers 73′Haile-Selassie 79′Cuypers 90+8′
Player of the match Philip Zinckernagel 9.2
GolVolt rating 3.0GolVolt rating
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The match in 30 seconds
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10 → 6
Chicago Fire climb 4 places in the table. Sporting KC stay in place 30.
Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Settled by 65′.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 65′.The result was clear early — little to hold on for. Drama: 1.9 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Zinckernagel scored the winner, Zinckernagel: rated 9.2.Solid performances, no single big hero. Heroes: 5.2 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% Not much was at stake yet. Stakes: 3.3 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% 5 goals.An average number of chances. Quality of play: 3.4 out of 10
Five goals or a hat-trick: the rating never drops below 3.0.
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 3.0more watchable than 30% of MLS matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
5 goals1 card
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 10' Andrew Gutmanyellow card
- Half-time · 0:0
- 51' Goal: Philip ZinckernagelChicago Fire1:0
- 51' Hugo Cuypersmissed penalty
- 61' SubstitutionLod for Dithejane
- 65' Goal: Philip Zinckernagelassist: Haile-Selassie2:0
- 73' Goal: Hugo Cuypersassist: Zinckernagel3:0
- 75' 2 substitutionsAfrifa for HarrisMeyer for James
- 76' 2 substitutionsOregel for SalétrosShokalook for Zinckernagel
- 79' Goal: Maren Haile-Selassieassist: Gutman4:0
- 84' 2 substitutionsPineda for D'AvillaRadojević for Gutman
- 86' SubstitutionBartlett for Capita
- 90+8' Goal: Hugo Cuypersassist: Elliott5:0
- Full-time · 5:0
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Chicago Fire
Sporting KC
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Chicago Fire
- 44 Josh Cohen GK —
- 4 Mbekezeli Mbokazi DEF —
- 14 Viktor Radojević DEF on
- 22 Mauricio Pineda DEF on
- 17 Robin Lod MID on
- 29 David Poreba MID —
- 35 Sergio Oregel MID on
- 20 Jason Shokalook ATT on
- 27 Dylan Borso ATT —
Sporting KC
- 12 Jack Kortkamp GK —
- 30 Stefan Cleveland GK —
- 16 Jacob Bartlett DEF on
- 28 Wyatt Meyer DEF on
- 99 Jayden Reid DEF —
- 14 Cielo Tschantret MID —
- 17 Stephen Afrifa ATT on
- 19 Taylor Calheira ATT —
- 93 Shapi Suleymanov ATT —
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Soldier Field, Chicago
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Chicago Fire Philip Zinckernagel
- 2. place · Chicago Fire Maren Haile-Selassie
- 3. place · Chicago Fire Hugo Cuypers
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