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Columbus Crew 3-0 Chicago Fire - September 20, 2023 / MLS 2023

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MLS 2023 - Round 27 - Eastern Conference

Lower.com Field - Columbus - United States

September 20, 2023 - 19:30

20 349

3 - 0

Chicago Fire

(penalty) Cucho Hernández

16'

Assist by Julian GresselCucho Hernández

23'

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8' - Goal Cucho Hernández8

8' - Yellow card Chris Brady

13' - Yellow card Arnaud Souquet

16' - Goal Cucho Hernández16

23' - Goal Cucho Hernández23

29' - Substitution Mauricio Pinedais substituted by Wyatt Omsberg

33' - Yellow card Rafael Czichos

44' - Yellow card Xherdan Shaqiri

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46' - Substitution Julian Gresselis substituted by Mohamed Farsi photo Sean Zawadzki

46' - Substitution Aidan Morrisis substituted by Sean Zawadzki46

46' - Substitution Rafael Czichosis substituted by Carlos Teran photo Jonathan Dean

46' - Substitution Arnaud Souquetis substituted by Jonathan Dean

57' - Substitution Gastón Claudio Giménezis substituted by Fabian Herbers

66' - Red card Xherdan Shaqiri

70' - Substitution Alexandru Matanis substituted by Kevin Molino photo Christian Ramirez

70' - Substitution Cucho Hernándezis substituted by Christian Ramirez70

70' - Substitution Jairo Torresis substituted by Kacper Przybylko

72' - Yellow card Georgios Koutsias

74' - Yellow card Kacper Przybylko

82' - Substitution Darlington Nagbeis substituted by Jimmy Medranda82

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Columbus Crew

3 - 0

Chicago Fire

Columbus Crew Chicago Fire

Team line-ups

Columbus Crew

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

10Rossi

Diego Rossi

Uruguay

B.date05/03/1998

Age25 years

H1m70

positionLeft Winger

9Hernández2381670

Cucho Hernández

Colombia

B.date22/04/1999

Age24 years

H1m75

positionCentre forward

20Matan70

Alexandru Matan

Romania

B.date29/08/1999

Age24 years

H1m67

positionOffensive Midfielder

8Morris46

Aidan Morris

United States

B.date16/11/2001

Age21 years

H1m75

positionCentre Midfield

6Nagbe82

Darlington Nagbe

United States

B.date19/07/1990

Age33 years

H1m75

positionBox-to-box midfielder

14Yeboah

Yaw Yeboah

Ghana

B.date28/03/1997

Age26 years

H1m75

positionOffensive Midfielder

7Gressel46

Julian Gressel

United States

B.date16/12/1993

Age29 years

H1m83

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

18Amundsen

Malte Amundsen

Denmark

B.date11/02/1998

Age25 years

H1m79

positionLeft full-back

4Camacho

Rudy Camacho

France

B.date05/03/1991

Age32 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

31Moreira

Steven Moreira

Cape Verde

B.date13/08/1994

Age29 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

28Schulte

Patrick Schulte

United States

B.date13/03/2001

Age22 years

H1m91

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
28	G	Patrick Schulte		22	27	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	D	Rudy Camacho		32	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	D	Malte Amundsen		25	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
31	D	Steven Moreira		29	72	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	M	Darlington Nagbe	82	33	123	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	M	Aidan Morris	46	21	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	D	Julian Gressel	46	29	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Alexandru Matan	70	24	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Yaw Yeboah		26	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	M	Cucho Hernández	2381670	24	42	9You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Diego Rossi		25	6	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Chicago Fire

forward

offensive midfielder

midfielder

defensive midfielder

defender

sweeper

goalkeeper

19Koutsias72

Georgios Koutsias

Greece

B.date08/02/2004

Age19 years

H1m80

positionCentre forward

10Shaqiri4466

Xherdan Shaqiri

Switzerland

B.date10/10/1991

Age31 years

H1m69

positionPlaymaker

7Haile Selassie

Maren Haile Selassie

Switzerland

B.date13/03/1999

Age24 years

H1m76

positionRight Offensive Midfielder

20Torres70

Jairo Torres

Mexico

B.date05/07/2000

Age23 years

H1m69

positionWinger

26Doumbia

Ousmane Doumbia

Ivory Coast

B.date21/05/1992

Age31 years

H1m74

positionDefensive Midfielder

30Giménez57

Gastón Claudio Giménez

Paraguay

B.date27/07/1991

Age32 years

H1m88

positionDefensive Midfielder

3Aceves

Daniel Aceves

Mexico

B.date28/03/2001

Age22 years

H1m80

positionLeft full-back

5Czichos4633

Rafael Czichos

Germany

B.date14/05/1990

Age33 years

H1m87

positionCentral defender

22Pineda29

Mauricio Pineda

United States

B.date17/10/1997

Age25 years

H1m85

positionCentral defender

2Souquet4613

Arnaud Souquet

France

B.date12/02/1992

Age31 years

H1m79

positionRight full-back

34Brady8

Chris Brady

United States

B.date03/03/2004

Age19 years

H1m90

positionGoalkeeper

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
34	G	Chris Brady	8	19	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	D	Rafael Czichos	4633	33	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Mauricio Pineda	29	25	109	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
2	D	Arnaud Souquet	4613	31	31	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Daniel Aceves		22	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
30	M	Gastón Claudio Giménez	57	32	99	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	M	Ousmane Doumbia		31	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	M	Maren Haile Selassie		24	34	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	F	Xherdan Shaqiri	4466	31	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Jairo Torres	70	23	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Georgios Koutsias	72	19	28	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.4 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
24	G	Evan Bush		37
21	D	Evgen Cheberko		25
23	D	Mohamed Farsi	46	23	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
94	D	Jimmy Medranda	82	29	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	M	Sean Zawadzki	46	23	37	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	M	Kevin Molino	70	33	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	F	Christian Ramirez	70	33	30	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
19	F	Jacen Russell-Rowe		21
27	F	Max Arfsten		22

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
18	G	Spencer Richey		31
4	D	Carlos Teran	46	22	59	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
16	D	Wyatt Omsberg	29	27	46	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
24	D	Jonathan Dean	46	26	20	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Miguel Navarro		24
21	M	Fabian Herbers	57	30	123	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	M	Brian Gutiérrez		20
11	F	Kacper Przybylko	7074	30	52	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	F	Kei Kamara		39

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Jairo Torres

Fabian Herbers

OUT

Xherdan Shaqiri

Kei Kamara

OUT

Georgios Koutsias

Brian Gutiérrez

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Wilfried Nancy

Success rate in this team:

51 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

48 %

Nancy vs Chicago Fire

6 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 20, 2023

Nancy vs Klopas

2 victories

0 draw

0 loss

Latest figure on September 20, 2023

Manager

Age

Match num

Frank Klopas

132

Success rate in this team:

42 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

37 %

Klopas vs Columbus Crew

10 victories

0 draw

7 losses

Latest figure on September 20, 2023

Klopas vs Nancy

0 victory

0 draw

2 losses

Latest figure on September 20, 2023

Referee

Ismir Pekmic

2 victories	2 draws	0 loss	Columbus Crew4 matches	General total	Chicago Fire7 matches	0 victory	4 draws	3 losses
2 victories	1 draw	0 loss	Columbus Crew3 matches	Season total	Chicago Fire1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 20, 2023					Latest figure on September 20, 2023

4th official

Marcos de Oliveira

8 victories	3 draws	7 losses	Columbus Crew18 matches	General total	Chicago Fire16 matches	4 victories	5 draws	7 losses
1 victory	0 draw	0 loss	Columbus Crew1 match	Season total	Chicago Fire1 match	0 victory	0 draw	1 loss
Latest figure on September 20, 2023					Latest figure on September 20, 2023

Videos

September 22, 2023

Comments

Key figures

Columbus Crew keeps its 11 matches with only one goal conceded at most vs Chicago Fire at home running (since 19/07/2015). It's a record streak. The previous one was back on the 26/05/2012 (3 matches)

No Columbus Crew manager (with more than 30 matches on the bench) before Wilfried Nancy has reached 51% of wins .

Cucho Hernández scored 5 goals vs Chicago Fire in his professional career

Read the next 10 key stats

General ranking

	1	FC Cincinnati	59 pts	29 rd
	2	Orlando City	50 pts	29 rd
+2	3	Columbus Crew	48 pts	29 rd
	4	Philadelphia Union	48 pts	28 rd
-2	5	New England Revolution	48 pts	28 rd

General ranking

	9	D.C. United	36 pts	30 rd
+2	10	New York City FC	34 pts	30 rd
-1	11	Chicago Fire	33 pts	29 rd
-1	12	Charlotte FC	33 pts	28 rd
+1	13	Inter Miami	31 pts	28 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

DColumbus Crew 1-1 New York City FC08/07/2023

VColumbus Crew 2-1 St. Louis City23/07/2023

VColumbus Crew 4-1 América Mexico31/07/2023

DColumbus Crew 3-3 Minnesota United04/08/2023

VColumbus Crew 3-0 FC Cincinnati20/08/2023

VColumbus Crew 2-0 Toronto FC26/08/2023

Overall

DColumbus Crew 3-3 Minnesota United04/08/2023

VColumbus Crew 3-0 FC Cincinnati20/08/2023

VColumbus Crew 2-0 Toronto FC26/08/2023

LHouston Dynamo 2-0 Columbus Crew30/08/2023

VCF Montréal 2-4 Columbus Crew02/09/2023

LOrlando City 4-3 Columbus Crew16/09/2023

Current form

Away

VSporting Kansas City 0-1 Chicago Fire24/06/2023

LOrlando City 3-1 Chicago Fire01/07/2023

VMinnesota United 2-3 Chicago Fire27/07/2023

LLos Angeles Galaxy 3-0 Chicago Fire26/08/2023

LD.C. United 4-0 Chicago Fire02/09/2023

DCF Montréal 0-0 Chicago Fire16/09/2023

Overall

LChicago Fire 0-1 América Mexico04/08/2023

LChicago Fire 1-3 Orlando City20/08/2023

LLos Angeles Galaxy 3-0 Chicago Fire26/08/2023

LChicago Fire 0-1 Vancouver Whitecaps30/08/2023

LD.C. United 4-0 Chicago Fire02/09/2023

DCF Montréal 0-0 Chicago Fire16/09/2023

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	2	0
Loosing streak	0	1
Unbeaten streak	12	0
Winless streak	0	1
Drawless streak	2	5
Scoring streak	20	2
Conceding streak	0	3
Invincibility streak	2	0

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Drawing streak	1	1
Unbeaten streak	1	1
Winless streak	3	7
Goalless streak	3	4
Invincibility streak	1	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

5	General ranking (Competition total)	10
3	General ranking (Home / Away)	10
1111	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	1368
7	FBDB index ranking (National)	23

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

28	Number of games (Competition total)	28
14	Number of games (Home / Away)	14
13	Victories (Competition total)	8
10	Victories (Home / Away)	3
6	Draws (Competition total)	9
3	Draws (Home / Away)	3
9	Losses (Competition total)	11
1	Losses (Home / Away)	8

Goals

57	Goals scored (Competition total)	32
35	Goals scored (Home / Away)	12
41	Goals conceded (Competition total)	42
12	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	25
2.04	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.14
2.5	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.86
1.46	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.5
0.86	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.79

Betting aid

17	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	16
8	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	9
7	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
6	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	3
2	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	9
0	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	7
19	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	14
8	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	6
2-0 (4 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-1 (2 times)

Bookings

52	Yellow cards (Competition total)	65
23	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	34
1	Red cards (Competition total)	5
1	Red cards (Home / Away)	4

Key players

Lucas Zelarayan	10 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	5 goals	Kei Kamara
Christian Ramirez	5 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Kei Kamara
Lucas Zelarayan	2 penalties	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Xherdan Shaqiri
Lucas Zelarayan	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)	1 penalty	Xherdan Shaqiri
Cucho Hernández	7 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	5 assists	Brian Gutiérrez
Lucas Zelarayan	6 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	4 assists	Brian Gutiérrez
Cucho Hernández	10 goals, 6 assists during the last 19 matches	The fittest player	1 goal, 2 assists during the last 8 matches	Maren Haile Selassie

Historical head to head

Home

39 matches

17 v

12 d

10 l

71 gf

45 ga

Away

43 matches

8 v

13 d

22 l

53 gf

70 ga

Total

82 matches

25 v

25 d

32 l

124 gf

115 ga

Historical head to head

Home

43 matches

22 v

13 d

8 l

70 gf

53 ga

Away

39 matches

10 v

12 d

17 l

45 gf

71 ga

Total

82 matches

32 v

25 d

25 l

115 gf

124 ga

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	October 26, 2003
Home	6 - 2	October 26, 2003

Largest victory

Overall	4 - 2	June 25, 2014
Away	2 - 0	April 30, 2005

Latest head to head

June 10, 2023 - MLS 2023

Chicago Fire

1 - 2

Columbus Crew logo Columbus Crew

September 03, 2022 - MLS 2022

Columbus Crew

0 - 0

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

July 09, 2022 - MLS 2022

Chicago Fire

2 - 3

Columbus Crew logo Columbus Crew

November 07, 2021 - MLS 2021

Columbus Crew

2 - 0

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

August 15, 2021 - MLS 2021

Chicago Fire

1 - 0

Columbus Crew logo Columbus Crew

Best historical scorers against Chicago Fire

Jeff Cunningham	13 goals	1999 - 2004
Gyasi Zardes	7 goals	2018 - 2021
Edson Buddle	7 goals	2002 - 2004
Federico Higuaín	5 goals	2013 - 2018
Kei Kamara	4 goals	2015 - 2015
Eddie Gaven	4 goals	2006 - 2012

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Columbus Crew

Ante Razov	11 goals	1999 - 2003
Chris Rolfe	8 goals	2005 - 2012
Damani Ralph	5 goals	2003 - 2004
Nemanja Nikolics	5 goals	2017 - 2018
David Accam	5 goals	2015 - 2017
Brian McBride	5 goals	2008 - 2010

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

Chad Marshall	26 matches	2004 - 2013
Jeff Cunningham	26 matches	1998 - 2011
Eddie Gaven	21 matches	2006 - 2013
Mike Clark	20 matches	1998 - 2003
Justin Meram	20 matches	2011 - 2018
Duncan Oughton	19 matches	2001 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Columbus Crew

CJ Brown	38 matches	1998 - 2010
Logan Pause	31 matches	2003 - 2014
Chris Armas	26 matches	1998 - 2007
Jesse Marsch	25 matches	1998 - 2005
Zach Thornton	23 matches	1998 - 2006
Chris Rolfe	23 matches	2005 - 2013

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Brian McBride

199 matches

72 matches

1996 - 2010

Tony Tchani

145 matches

16 matches

2011 - 2018

Jon Busch

101 matches

90 matches

2002 - 2015

Kei Kamara

84 matches

29 matches

2006 - 2023

Dilly Duka

70 matches

41 matches

2010 - 2017

Eric Gehrig

54 matches

36 matches

2011 - 2016

Total : 25 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/04/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Ante Razov

7 matches

196 matches

1998 - 2005

Jalil Anibaba

6 matches

108 matches

2011 - 2022

Jon Busch

101 matches

90 matches

2002 - 2015

David Accam

17 matches

85 matches

2015 - 2019

Dominic Oduro

46 matches

73 matches

2011 - 2014

Brian McBride

199 matches

72 matches

1996 - 2010

Total : 25 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/04/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	FC Cincinnati	59	29	17	8	4	47	33	+14
2	Orlando City	50	29	14	8	7	45	36	+9
+23	Columbus Crew	48	29	14	6	9	60	41	+19
4	Philadelphia Union	48	28	14	6	8	51	35	+16
-25	New England Revolution	48	28	13	9	6	47	34	+13
6	Atlanta United	46	30	12	10	8	57	46	+11
7	Nashville SC	43	28	12	7	9	35	27	+8
8	CF Montréal	37	29	11	4	14	29	41	-12
9	D.C. United	36	30	9	9	12	38	39	-1
+210	New York City FC	34	30	7	13	10	30	36	-6
-111	Chicago Fire	33	29	8	9	12	32	45	-13
-112	Charlotte FC	33	28	7	12	9	36	45	-9
+113	Inter Miami	31	28	9	4	15	36	44	-8
-114	New York Red Bulls	31	29	7	10	12	25	34	-9
15	Toronto FC	22	29	4	10	15	24	45	-21

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Columbus Crew 3-0 Chicago Fire - September 20, 2023 / MLS 2023

Columbus Crew

3 - 0

Chicago Fire

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Nancy vs Chicago Fire

Nancy vs Klopas

Manager

Klopas vs Columbus Crew

Klopas vs Nancy

Referee

4th official

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Chicago Fire

Best historical scorers against Columbus Crew

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

Players with most games played vs Columbus Crew

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

Post-match general ranking