Albert
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7d
My Prediction
Chicago Fire by 2Before anyone gets too excited, we'll take a hard look at this one - Chicago Fire versus CF Montreal. Let's take a gander at the stats, shall we?
In the goalkeepers' corner for CF Montreal, we have Jonathan Sirois with a 7.37 rating and 20 saves. Pretty impressive, right? Well, in the other, for Chicago Fire, we have Chris Brady with a somewhat lower rating of 7.18 and 11 saves. It seems Sirois has been a smidge busier, folks.
Turning to the field players, for CF Montreal, we have a bunch of guys (let's call them Joel Waterman, Dante Sealy, and Tom Pearce) who, in addition to having cool names, are fairly precise with their passes, even though they haven't knocked in any goals recently.
For Chicago Fire, Hugo Cuypers, Andrew Gutman, and Leonardo Barroso have been busy making holes in the net, notching a total of 8 goals between them. There's no 'I' in team, but there's definitely a 'G' in goals!
Digging into history, we witness a mixed bag of past matchups. The scored have bounced around more than a pinball in a machine. Pizzas were probably thrown. Friendships, tested. Let's just say it's been intense.
Looking at the regular season record, CF Montreal's scorecard reads like a sad country song, sitting at 0-1-4. On the other hand, Chicago Fire has been cooking with a 3-1-1 record.
Then we've got recent results. CF Montreal has had an apparently contagious case of the yips, facing defeat after defeat, interrupted by a lone draw. Chicago Fire, for its part, has been garnering more checkmarks in the 'W' column, despite a recent dose of a 4-2 loss.
When the smoke clears, based on a strategy devised by someone who probably watches way too much sport and not enough reality TV, here are my thoughts.
Albert’s Prediction: Chicago Fire by 2.