Chicago FireAttacking momentumPortland Timbers
Preview
- The Group Stage of the 2026 MLS sees Chicago Fire and Portland Timbers collide on 2026-08-16 at 23:00 GMT.
- In their last 10 matches, Referee C. Penso averaged 5-6 yellow cards and 0 red cards, and 23 fouls.
- With the data available to us, Mario Barcena and Jack Cassidy have not met as managers before.
- Chicago Fire misses 3 players: A. Franco (Knee Injury), M. Mbokazi (Lower-Body Injury), C. Mueller (Inactive) and Portland Timbers misses 3 players: A. Aravena (Hip Injury), J. Mosquera (Foot Injury), J. Pantemis (Injury).
- Our forecast has Chicago Fire in a 4-man backline (4-3-3), with Portland Timbers set to counter in 4-1-4-1.
- Chicago Fire came off a win (2-1 vs Cruz Azul) and Portland Timbers also triumphed (3-1 vs Tijuana).
- Chicago Fire (4-0-1) and Portland Timbers (4-0-1) head into this in winning moods from their past 5 matches.
- Portland Timbers hold the upper hand H2H: of 14 meetings, they've triumphed 6 times, conceded 2 times and shared 6 draws.
- We're forecasting a stalemate, 0-0, as Chicago Fire's 2.00 goals/game at home balance out Portland Timbers's 2.22 away scoring.
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Odds
Predictions
Summary
Match Info
Team Kits
Chicago Fire
Portland Timbers
Events
| 9' | 1 - 0 | ||
| 14' | 2 - 0 | ||
HT 2 - 0 | |||
| 51' | B. Bye | ||
| 57' | R. Lod | ||
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| 72' | |||
| 76' | |||
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| 79' | A. Saletros | ||
| 82' | |||
| 85' | 2 - 1 | ||
| 88' | |||
| 90+4' | V. Janssen | ||
Stats
Lineups
Standings
TV Channels
Chicago Fire is going head to head with Portland Timbers on 16/8/2026 22:00 GMT for the USA MLS. You can view the match information, lineups, odds, live score, result, goalscorers, cards, substitutions, standings, recent form, player ratings, injuries, tv channels, our users most predicted scores and Chicago Fire v Portland Timbers H2H statistics!