You 'd assume that after 10 years We 'd be utilized to video games such as this. This video game had everything we've pertained to anticipate from our club: An excellent start with thrown away chances in front of objective? Yes. Big conserves, both for and also versus? Oh Yes. Poor turnovers in unpleasant areas? Yep. Objectives that couldn't be discussed? Yep? For bonus offer factors, they additionally jumped on the incorrect side of VAR and also after that surrendered a goal promptly afterward Fans Personalized. Yet the truth is that every single time it occurs, we get sadder and also angrier as well as much more fed up with this club. The 2022 Chicago Fire, with all due respect to the San Jose Earthquakes, need to have walked out of PayPal park with a simple three points. The Fire were coming off a mid-week sway the most effective team in their Eastern Meeting having played their finest video game in a while. Rather, we got more of the same. The very first half was the typical. The Fire dominated the video game, even if they really did not control belongings, The anticipated goals chart resembled this: Here's the xG graph after 25 mins. #cf 97 #SJvCHI The Fire midfield when again created a wide variety of possibilities in the first 25 minutes. And the Fire demonstrators do away with none. Either they waited also long as well as the shots were obstructed, or the San Jose goalkeeper JT Marcinkowski amounted to the effort and maintained the video game scoreless. San Jose didn't do anything harmful ultimately. The score at the half Points went off the rails in the 2nd fifty percent, as points so frequently do. The Fire went to sleep at the wrong times, leading to San Jose taking control of the game, which cause a silly series of events that lead to the Quakes taking the lead. A Montero Shot was conserved by Slonina, who quit a rebound struck off the bar, a shot dispersed by a Fire protector, a discharged the message, as well as lastly a tap-in by Benji Kikanovic. Kikanovic would certainly increase his lead later on in the fifty percent, racking up the 2nd Quakes goal after the Fire dropped asleep after a VAR choice on a prospective charge really did not go their way. There was a positive side, as there always seems to be too, other than the goalkeeping performance. Brian Gutierrez scored his first goal for the club! The 18-year-old Chicagoan slid in behind after a Jhon Duran pass and also with a professional coating, placed the ball in the back of the internet. If anything, that must offer Ezra Hendrickson and also his personnel a concept of who to start next Saturday. That the Fire can not leave this pattern of futility is depressing, frustrating, as well as wearing down all at the very same time. I do not recognize what it will certainly take for them to obtain it with each other as well as tremble themselves out of this 5-year long rut. However if the end of the video game is any indication, the solutions might be in the following generation. They just need to play them. The Fire next dip into Soldier Area versus the Columbus Crew on Saturday, July 9th.