Shaqiri, Haile Selassie lead Chicago Fire to romp of CF Montreal
CHICAGO (AP-CP) — Xherdan Shaqiri and Maren Haile-Selassie each had a purpose and an help within the first half to energy the Chicago Fire to a 3-0 victory over CF Montreal on Wednesday night time.
Chicago (7-7-8) struck rapidly when Brian Gutiérrez used a move from 19-year-old Georgios Koutsias within the ninth minute to attain his first purpose of the season.
Haile-Selassie and Shaqiri set one another’s objectives up. Haile-Selassie’s fourth netter this season got here two minutes after Gutiérrez scored. Shaqiri scored his third purpose of the season within the thirty fourth minute to provide the Fire a 3-0 lead at halftime.
“We had chances tonight, but the worst thing is that we lost the game after 10 minutes,” stated Montreal head coach Hernan Losada after the sport. “It is tough to know as a result of on the primary purpose, it was a chance for us and ultimately, Chicago scores. These are errors which can be arduous to simply accept at this stage.
“We are losing together as a team. You win or you lose as a group.”
Chicago snapped a four-match shedding streak to Montreal (8-12-2) with its first multi-goal margin of victory this season.
Chris Brady saved 4 photographs to earn the clear sheet for the Fire. Jonathan Sirois totalled two saves for Montreal.
Montreal falls to 3-6-3 all-time in opposition to the Fire in Chicago.
“It is frustrating because they capitalized on three of their five shots and we did not score on 17 shots,” said Montreal defender Joel Waterman. “They took care of their chances. We have to find ways to score.”
Montreal has been shut out in 9 of its 12 street matches this season with a 1-9-2 document. The membership has scored simply 4 away objectives all season. Montreal has earned solely 5 factors on the street this season after main the league with 35 in 2022.
The Fire enhance to 4-1-0 of their final 5 matches after a 3-6-8 begin.
Montreal returns residence to host Charlotte FC on Saturday. Chicago will host Toronto FC on Saturday.
