PBP: Fire entire Charlotte's Webb 5/17/25 6:30 pm Apple TV

Discussion in 'Chicago Fire' started by xtomx, May 16, 2025.

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What happens in this Early Saturday evening battle?

  1. Fire win (we have 3 wins on the road, to 1 at home)

    11 vote(s)
    78.6%
  2. Fire draw

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  3. Fire lose (to a team the Fire have only every beat once)

    3 vote(s)
    21.4%
  4. Something STOOPID Happens (and just a win does not count)

    12 vote(s)
    85.7%
  5. Malört (which may or may not be available there)

    10 vote(s)
    71.4%
  6. Rubber Dick (NOT shaped like Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz)

    7 vote(s)
    50.0%
  7. Is Keven De Bruyne starting for us on Saturday?

    4 vote(s)
    28.6%
  8. We are NOT signing him. He will be going to Italy.

    5 vote(s)
    35.7%
  9. Is the new Pope a Fire fan?

    8 vote(s)
    57.1%
  10. Does he even know the Fire exist?

    6 vote(s)
    42.9%
  11. At least the Supreme Court declared that people in the US deserve, well, some Due Process

    10 vote(s)
    71.4%
  12. Well, stops the immediate, illegal deportations under the "Alien Enemies Act"...for now

    7 vote(s)
    50.0%
  13. I will be a bar showing the match!

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  14. I will be on the couch, with my beer, cat, pizza, whatever

    10 vote(s)
    71.4%
  15. I will be at a bar, watching on whatever device I can

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  16. I will try to avoid the NBA and NHL Playoffs and watch the game

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  17. I will be doing something else. I am bored with the Fire

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  18. I am not getting up early Sunday morning to watch from South Korea

    1 vote(s)
    7.1%
Multiple votes are allowed.
  1. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    #1 xtomx, May 16, 2025
    Last edited: May 16, 2025
    The Fire hopefully took the rest they had this week, being one of the few teams not to play a midweek match this week and became a bit healthier.

    The Fire have responded from their humiliation at the hands and feet of Nashville by going three matches unbeaten.

    First, was the fortunately dull 0-0 draw against Orlando.

    Then, the Fire dominated an outmatched Detroit City team in the US Open Cup.

    Now, after last week's 2-1 bitch slapping of the heathens from Atlanta,

    The Fire take another team from "Dixie" (fourth straight in MLS Play) in Charlotte with the unfortunate shortened version of "CLT"

    Venturing into the South is always a scary proposition, but the "Queen City" (bizarrely named after the wife of King George III, yep, the same King who's ass we kicked in the Revolutionary War. Odd they did not change the names of the cities named after "the enemy" (at the time) after Independence) is not nearly as bad as Atlanta or Houston or Dallas, I guess.

    For the season, Charlotte have been "okay" with 19 points from 13 matches and have been quite good at home with 15 points from 6 matches (5 wins, 1 defeat).

    Currently, they sit in 7th in the East. Charlotte are on 19 points, NYRB and NYC are on 18, NER are on 17 and the Fire are on 16 points.

    That changes Saturday night.
    The Fire will win and will jump into a tie with Charlotte and WHEN the Fire win by more than 6 goals (it could happen, something stupid will inevitably happen, why can't it be something stupid to the very, very good for the "men in red" or white/light blue?), the Fire will leapfrog Charlotte (of course, a bunch of other teams could, as well)

    Charlotte are coached by veteran sucky English coach Dean Smith, who has been in charge of such luminous teams as Walsall, Brentford, Aston Villa, Norwich, and Leicester City, so he has some EPL (which sucks) coaching experience, helping Aston Villa earn promotion back to the EPL (which sucks) after a year in the Championship, which is not really a "championship," but a second division, but such is the idiocy of how football leagues are named around the world.

    Charlotte have former Cystal Palace and Man U striker Wilifred Zaha as their primary DP, on loan from Galatasaray.
    Their other DP is Israeli winger Liel Abada, who Charlotte bought from Celtic.
    Attacking midfielder Pep Biel helps spearhead the attack.
    37 year old Tim Ream, inexplicably still a starter for the USMNT, anchors the defense.
    Also, the largely useless Brandt Bronico is still managing to draw a decent salary from Charlotte after being a Chicago Fire castoff. He has managed to be a contributor there for the better part of four years.
    Charlotte did dump Polish international striker Karol Świderski after the season, after sending him out on loan for much of last year, managing to squeeze a couple of million out of Panathinaikos.

    Beyond that, I don't have much to say about their players, as they are most nobodies.

    All time, the Fire have a TERRIBLE record against the team with one of the stupidest nicknames in football.
    "The Crown" is just ridiculous. Note, it is singular and not plural.
    Might as well just call them the "wristwatch" or the "calculator." Stupid, stupid, stupid

    The Fire have been terrible versus "The Crown" (and they have not been very good against the team, either!-Read that in a Groucho Marx voice)

    The Fire have won once and lost five times, including every time they have played in Chicago.
    Last season, the Fire capitulated 0-1 at Soldier Field in May and had just crumbled in October, losing 3-4 in Charlotte to kill off any playoff hopes.
    The Fire's sole win against Charlotte was in 2022, a 3-2 win in Charlotte.

    Considering their dire history against North Carolinians, I can only predict a resounding win by our favorite Chicago team.

    3-1 will be the score.

    Cuypers will cuyper a goal.
    Gutierrez will break his scoreless run and add a fourth on the season.
    I am going with Zinckernagel to keep up his good run of form with either a goal or an assist.












    .GO FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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  2. goldclover

    goldclover Member+

    Mar 25, 2010
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Kudos for the Groucho Marx reference! I hate to say it but Bronico has actually been a very steady (if unassuming) player for Charlotte since leaving the Fire. Not good at anything but steady at everything. Not ideal for a starter but apparently Charlotte cannot get anyone steady in the middle. Go Fire!
     
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  3. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Chicago Fire FC
    • OUT: Leonardo Barroso (lower body)
    • OUT: Chase Gasper (lower body)
    • OUT: David Poreba (lower body)
    • OUT: Carlos Terán (lower body)
    • QUESTIONABLE: Chris Mueller (not due to injury)

    Charlotte FC

    • OUT: Nimfasha Berchimas (foot)
    • OUT: Nathan Byrne (neck)
    • OUT: Brandon Cambridge (thigh)
    • OUT: Souleyman Doumbia (hamstring)
    • OUT: Jahlane Forbes (thigh)
    • QUESTIONABLE: Kristijan Kahlina (not due to injury)
    • QUESTIONABLE: Tyger Smalls (knee)
    • QUESTIONABLE: Idan Toklomati (thigh)
     
  4. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    I apologize for typo in the thread title.
    It should be "Enters" not "Entire"

    If there is a ball sucking mod about, could that be changed?
     
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  5. Our mod went a-ball sucking months ago and hasn't been seen or heard from since. We may never know whether he sucked, or was sucked. :eek:
     
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  6. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Yep. I almost reached out to a super mod, since our mods have disappeared.
     
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  7. Pennsylvania Dave

    Jul 31, 2012
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    I gigged East Side Bowl in Nashville last night and drove home arriving at 2am and now have to drive to play Southgate House Revival in Cincinnati so I unfortunately will not be able to watch this match in real time. I am trying to decide whether I should bubble and watch the replay thus forsaking you all on a timely Sunday news report or if I should go ahead and do the news anyway and just watch the replay knowing the result late Sunday afternoon? Either way I'm going to miss this in real time because...rock and roll.
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  8. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  9. bunge

    bunge BigSoccer Supporter

    Oct 24, 2000
    We suck. Don’t do anything on our behalf.
     
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  10. bunge

    bunge BigSoccer Supporter

    Oct 24, 2000
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  11. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I’m assuming the Zevon reference means you read LGM regularly.

    Am I right?
     
  12. bunge

    bunge BigSoccer Supporter

    Oct 24, 2000
    actually, I don’t. The only time I’ve ever seen it but the times you’ve posted it here.
     
  13. lurak

    lurak Member+

    Aug 24, 2007
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    So I just realized that it is "Rivalry Week" and the Fire were off on Wednesday and Charlotte today. Is this how far the Fire have fallen? I don't really get into all of MLS' marketing stuff, but we should have an interesting match. When is the next Rivalry Week anyway as I know they usually have more than one.
     
  14. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    I saw that in an email from MLS today and had the same thought.
     
  15. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
  16. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Kouamé not starting, again.
    Acosta not starting, again.

    A lot of money tied up in players on the bench.
     
  17. bunge

    bunge BigSoccer Supporter

    Oct 24, 2000
    Let’s use that special window to move them! Oh wait…
     
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  18. bunge

    bunge BigSoccer Supporter

    Oct 24, 2000
    I’m OK with calling that a foul but a yellow? Poor officiating.
     
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  19. xtomx

    xtomx Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Sep 6, 2001
    Northern Wisconsin, but not far from civilization
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    Not much happening in the first 20 minutes.
     
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  20. Nor in the last 6-7 minutes.
     
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  21. bunge

    bunge BigSoccer Supporter

    Oct 24, 2000
    Gutman needs to pay the trap if his captain steps up to play the trap…
     
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  22. schroncar

    schroncar Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Mar 2, 2007
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Dean just made a stop on left side of fire
     
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  23. bunge

    bunge BigSoccer Supporter

    Oct 24, 2000
    Guti playing very well box to box. He almost never shows well defensively but maybe he’s learning how he has to do it. It’s been great.
     
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  24. Old Man!

    Old Man! BigSoccer Supporter

    RIP Chicago Fire
    Mar 11, 2000
    Bamba perplexes me.

    He's floating a lot around the left side of the field, but not really achieving anything. I wonder what direction Gregg is giving him.

    Charlotte feels like the more dangerous side so far.
     
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  25. schroncar

    schroncar Member+

    Chicago Fire
    Mar 2, 2007
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    #25 schroncar, May 17, 2025
    Last edited: May 17, 2025
    These 40 minutes have shown beyond a shadow of doubt why we need a speedy starter CB.
     

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