The Seattle Sounders and Chicago Fire are playing on the MLS Soccer schedule on Saturday night and the game is live and streaming online at Toyota Park starting at 8:30 pm ET and the teams are looking to keep things going while the World Cup is being played and the Sounders have the best record in the league and are coming in after losing to Real Salt Lake and they will be without Clint Dempsey.
The Sounders have been the most consistent team in the league and that is one reason why they have the best record and another reason is the play of Dempsey and he is at the World Cup right now for the United States along with a number of other players. The Fire are back home after two straight draws and the team ended up scoreless with the Rapids in Colorado and now they are looking to upset the Sounders at home and the team all-time has not won a game against Seattle in eight meetings and with four games at home the Sounders have two wins in Chicago against the Fire.
The Sounders have two wins on the road here with four goals and the Fire have two goals in those games in Chicago and last year Seattle won 2-1 in the matchup and this will be the only time the two teams face off this season. clint Dempsey and DeAndre Yedlin are with the World Cup for this game and the US team is hoping Dempsey can help lead them to the knockout rounds. Seattle has their undefeated record on the line against the Fire and they have wins and three draws and this comes after the two teams played the US Open Cup final back in 2011 and the Fire come into the day with 14 points on the season in 13 games and the team is in eighth place in the Eastern Conference.
The Fire had a clean sheet against the Rapids and that was their first of the season and the team has had some issues on offense and they will try and rectify that against the Sounders. Seattle will be without Clint Dempsey, as he is playing with the US and that leave names like Brad Evans and Chad Barrett to handle things. The Us has a very tough draw in the World Cup and they have a group being names the Group of Death with Germany, Portugal and Ghana and the team will have a very tough time getting into the knockout round.
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