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Chicago Fire 2-1 Columbus Crew - September 22, 2012 / MLS 2012

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MLS 2012 - Round 29 - Eastern Conference

Toyota Park - Bridgeview - United States

September 22, 2012

19 172

Chicago Fire

2 - 1

Columbus Crew

Assist by Sherjill MacDonaldChris Rolfe

23'

Assist by Patrick NyarkoChris Rolfe

26'

15'

Jairo Arrieta

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15' - Goal Jairo Arrieta

23' - Goal Chris Rolfe23

26' - Goal Chris Rolfe26

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69' - Substitution Emilio Renteríais substituted by Justin Meram photo Tony Tchani

69' - Substitution Eddie Gavenis substituted by Tony Tchani

78' - Substitution Sherjill MacDonaldis substituted by Daniel Paladini78

82' - Substitution Sebastián Mirandais substituted by Olman Vargas

85' - Substitution Chris Rolfeis substituted by Dominic Oduro85

89' - Substitution Alexis substituted by Wells Thompson89

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Team line-ups Key figures Pre-match Competition info

Chicago Fire

2 - 1

Columbus Crew

Chicago Fire Columbus Crew

Team line-ups

Chicago Fire

25 Johnson

Sean Johnson

United States

B.date31/05/1989

Age23 years

H1m93

positionGoalkeeper

6 Anibaba

Jalil Anibaba

United States

B.date19/10/1988

Age23 years

H1m82

positionCentral defender

23 Friedrich

Arne Friedrich

Germany

B.date29/05/1979

Age33 years

H1m85

positionLeft central defender

22 Berry

Austin Berry

United States

B.date10/06/1988

Age24 years

H1m88

positionRight central defender

13 Segares

Gonzalo Segares

Costa Rica

B.date13/10/1982

Age29 years

H1m80

positionDefender

12 Pause

Logan Pause

United States

B.date22/08/1981

Age31 years

H1m78

positionDefensive Midfielder

71 Alex89

Alex

Brazil

B.date15/12/1988

Age23 years

H1m74

positionCentre Midfield

4 Fernández

Alvaro Fernández

Uruguay

B.date11/10/1985

Age26 years

H1m85

positionRight Midfielder

14 Nyarko

Patrick Nyarko

Ghana

B.date15/01/1986

Age26 years

H1m83

positionVersatile Midfielder

7 MacDonald78

Sherjill MacDonald

Netherlands

B.date20/11/1984

Age27 years

H1m90

positionStriker

18 Rolfe232685

Chris Rolfe

United States

B.date17/01/1983

Age29 years

H1m73

positionForward

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
25	G	Sean Johnson		23	76	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
6	D	Jalil Anibaba		23	64	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
23	D	Arne Friedrich		33	19	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
22	D	Austin Berry		24	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
13	D	Gonzalo Segares		29	201	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	M	Logan Pause		31	298	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
71	M	Alex	89	23	13	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
4	M	Alvaro Fernández		26	8	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	M	Patrick Nyarko		26	143	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
7	F	Sherjill MacDonald	78	27	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
18	F	Chris Rolfe	232685	29	166	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

26.7 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Columbus Crew

30 Gruenebaum

Andy Gruenebaum

United States

B.date30/12/1982

Age29 years

H1m85

positionGoalkeeper

3 Williams

Josh Williams

United States

B.date18/04/1988

Age24 years

H1m88

positionCentral defender

14 Marshall

Chad Marshall

United States

B.date22/08/1984

Age28 years

H1m91

positionRight central defender

26 James

Julius James

Trinidad and Tobago

B.date09/07/1984

Age28 years

H1m83

positionCentral defender

21 Miranda82

Sebastián Miranda

Chile

B.date26/06/1980

Age32 years

H1m70

positionFull-back

20 Rentería69

Emilio Rentería

Venezuela

B.date09/10/1984

Age27 years

H1m78

positionMidfield

5 O'Rourke

Danny O'Rourke

United States

B.date31/05/1983

Age29 years

H1m83

positionMidfield

12 Gaven69

Eddie Gaven

United States

B.date25/10/1986

Age25 years

H1m83

positionVersatile Offensive Midfielder

10 Mirosevic

Milovan Mirosevic

Chile

B.date20/06/1980

Age32 years

H1m78

positionOffensive Midfielder

25 Arrieta15

Jairo Arrieta

Costa Rica

B.date25/08/1983

Age29 years

H1m73

positionForward

33 Higuaín

Federico Higuaín

Argentina

B.date25/10/1984

Age27 years

H1m73

positionForward

First 11				Age	Match num	Note
30	G	Andy Gruenebaum		29	71	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
3	D	Josh Williams		24	29	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
14	D	Chad Marshall		28	246	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
26	D	Julius James		28	44	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
21	D	Sebastián Miranda	82	32	66	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
20	M	Emilio Rentería	69	27	81	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
5	M	Danny O'Rourke		29	145	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
12	M	Eddie Gaven	69	25	226	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
10	M	Milovan Mirosevic		32	23	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
25	F	Jairo Arrieta	15	29	14	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
33	F	Federico Higuaín		27	9	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Average age

28.2 years

Average number of matches played for the team

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
11	M	Daniel Paladini	78	27	40	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
15	M	Wells Thompson	89	28	3	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
8	F	Dominic Oduro	85	27	67	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Substitutes				Age	Match num	Note
6	M	Tony Tchani	69	23	21	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
9	F	Justin Meram	69	23	39	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player
17	F	Olman Vargas	82	27	12	You have to sign in to cast your vote for this player

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

No changes regarding the previous match for the starting players

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Emilio Rentería

Dilly Duka

OUT

Manager

Age

Match num

Frank Klopas

Success rate in this team:

47 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

47 %

Klopas vs Columbus Crew

4 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 22, 2012

Klopas vs Warzycha

4 victories

0 draw

1 loss

Latest figure on September 22, 2012

Manager

Age

Match num

Robert Warzycha

169

Success rate in this team:

41 %

Success rate since the beginning of his career:

41 %

Warzycha vs Chicago Fire

3 victories

4 draws

6 losses

Latest figure on September 22, 2012

Warzycha vs Klopas

1 victory

0 draw

4 losses

Latest figure on September 22, 2012

Referee

Michael Kennedy

10 victories	4 draws	2 losses	Chicago Fire16 matches	General total	Columbus Crew30 matches	8 victories	11 draws	11 losses
2 victories	0 draw	1 loss	Chicago Fire3 matches	Season total	Columbus Crew2 matches	0 victory	0 draw	2 losses
Latest figure on September 22, 2012					Latest figure on September 22, 2012

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Key figures

Chris Rolfe scored 8 goals vs Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer with Chicago Fire

Only back at the time of Bob Bradley head of (30/10/1997-05/10/2002), you can see a manager go over Frank Klopas with 46% of wins in Major League Soccer (50%).

Columbus Crew keeps its 8 consecutive matches without a draw running (since 22/08/2012). The last time this streak has been beaten, it was during the 17/09/2011-14/04/2012 time period (12 matches).

Read the next 14 key stats

General ranking

1	Sporting Kansas City	55 pts	30 rd
2	Chicago Fire	53 pts	29 rd
3	New York Red Bulls	50 pts	30 rd
4	D.C. United	47 pts	29 rd
5	Houston Dynamo	46 pts	29 rd

General ranking

4	D.C. United	47 pts	29 rd
5	Houston Dynamo	46 pts	29 rd
6	Columbus Crew	45 pts	30 rd
7	Impact de Montréal	40 pts	31 rd
8	New England Revolution	29 pts	30 rd

Pre-match

Current form

Home

LChicago Fire 0-2 Los Angeles Galaxy08/07/2012

VChicago Fire 1-0 Vancouver Whitecaps14/07/2012

VChicago Fire 2-1 Toronto FC04/08/2012

VChicago Fire 2-1 New England Revolution18/08/2012

VChicago Fire 3-1 Houston Dynamo02/09/2012

VChicago Fire 3-1 CF Montréal15/09/2012

Overall

VPhiladelphia Union 1-3 Chicago Fire12/08/2012

VChicago Fire 2-1 New England Revolution18/08/2012

LD.C. United 4-2 Chicago Fire22/08/2012

VChicago Fire 3-1 Houston Dynamo02/09/2012

VToronto FC 1-2 Chicago Fire12/09/2012

VChicago Fire 3-1 CF Montréal15/09/2012

Current form

Away

VSporting Kansas City 1-2 Columbus Crew28/07/2012

LD.C. United 1-0 Columbus Crew04/08/2012

DHouston Dynamo 2-2 Columbus Crew19/08/2012

VPhiladelphia Union 1-2 Columbus Crew29/08/2012

LNew England Revolution 2-0 Columbus Crew05/09/2012

LNew York Red Bulls 3-1 Columbus Crew15/09/2012

Overall

VColumbus Crew 4-3 New England Revolution25/08/2012

VPhiladelphia Union 1-2 Columbus Crew29/08/2012

VColumbus Crew 2-1 CF Montréal01/09/2012

LNew England Revolution 2-0 Columbus Crew05/09/2012

LNew York Red Bulls 3-1 Columbus Crew15/09/2012

VColumbus Crew 1-0 Chivas USA19/09/2012

Running streaks

	Home	Total
Winning streak	5	3
Unbeaten streak	5	3
Drawless streak	10	7
Scoring streak	5	8
Conceding streak	4	9

Running streaks

	Away	Total
Winning streak	0	1
Loosing streak	2	0
Unbeaten streak	0	1
Winless streak	2	0
Drawless streak	3	7
Scoring streak	1	2
Conceding streak	8	0
Invincibility streak	0	1

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

2	General ranking (Competition total)	6
5	General ranking (Home / Away)	4
360	FBDB index ranking (Worldwide)	513
3	FBDB index ranking (National)	8

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

28	Number of games (Competition total)	29
14	Number of games (Home / Away)	15
15	Victories (Competition total)	13
10	Victories (Home / Away)	4
5	Draws (Competition total)	6
2	Draws (Home / Away)	4
8	Losses (Competition total)	10
2	Losses (Home / Away)	7

Goals

40	Goals scored (Competition total)	35
23	Goals scored (Home / Away)	13
33	Goals conceded (Competition total)	35
13	Goals conceded (Home / Away)	18
1.43	Goals scored per match average (Competition total)	1.21
1.64	Goals scored per match average (Home / Away)	0.87
1.18	Conceced goals per match average (Competition total)	1.21
0.93	Conceced goals per match average (Home / Away)	1.2

Betting aid

16	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Competition total)	13
9	Number of matches with more than 2,5 goals (Home / Away)	6
5	Clean sheets (Competition total)	8
3	Clean sheets (Home / Away)	4
6	Matches without scoring (Competition total)	8
2	Matches without scoring (Home / Away)	6
19	The 2 teams score (Competition total)	15
10	The 2 teams score (Home / Away)	7
2-1 (5 times)	Most frequent score (Home / Away)	0-2 (2 times)

Bookings

41	Yellow cards (Competition total)	46
24	Yellow cards (Home / Away)	27
2	Red cards (Competition total)	2
2	Red cards (Home / Away)	2

Key players

Chris Rolfe	6 goals	Team's best scorer (Competition total)	6 goals	Eddie Gaven
Marco Pappa	4 goals	Team's best scorer (Home / Away)	2 goals	Milovan Mirosevic
Chris Rolfe	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Competition total)	1 penalty	Milovan Mirosevic
Chris Rolfe	1 penalty	Team's penalty best scorer (Home / Away)		-
Pavel Pardo	4 assists	Player with most assists (Competition total)	6 assists	Federico Higuaín
Pavel Pardo	2 assists	Player with most assists (Home / Away)	3 assists	Federico Higuaín
Alvaro Fernández	2 goals, 1 assist during the last 2 matches	The fittest player	2 assists during the last 2 matches	Jairo Arrieta

Historical head to head

Home

26 matches

14 v

7 d

5 l

45 gf

34 ga

Away

24 matches

9 v

7 d

8 l

35 gf

40 ga

Total

50 matches

23 v

14 d

13 l

80 gf

74 ga

Historical head to head

Home

24 matches

8 v

7 d

9 l

40 gf

35 ga

Away

26 matches

5 v

7 d

14 l

34 gf

45 ga

Total

50 matches

13 v

14 d

23 l

74 gf

80 ga

Largest victory

Overall	2 - 0	October 08, 2010
Home	2 - 0	October 08, 2010

Largest victory

Overall	6 - 2	October 26, 2003
Away	4 - 1	October 07, 2006

Latest head to head

June 23, 2012 - MLS 2012

Chicago Fire

2 - 1

Columbus Crew logo Columbus Crew

May 26, 2012 - MLS 2012

Columbus Crew

2 - 1

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

October 22, 2011 - MLS 2011

Chicago Fire

3 - 2

Columbus Crew logo Columbus Crew

June 12, 2011 - MLS 2011

Columbus Crew

0 - 1

Chicago Fire logo Chicago Fire

October 08, 2010 - MLS 2010

Chicago Fire

2 - 0

Columbus Crew logo Columbus Crew

Best historical scorers against Columbus Crew

Ante Razov	11 goals	1999 - 2003
Chris Rolfe	6 goals	2005 - 2008
Brian McBride	5 goals	2008 - 2010
Damani Ralph	5 goals	2003 - 2004
Piotr Nowak	4 goals	1998 - 2002
Andy Herron	4 goals	2004 - 2008

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Best historical scorers against Chicago Fire

Jeff Cunningham	13 goals	1999 - 2004
Edson Buddle	7 goals	2002 - 2004
Eddie Gaven	4 goals	2006 - 2012
Chad Marshall	3 goals	2007 - 2009
Stern John	3 goals	1998 - 1999
Jason Garey	3 goals	2006 - 2010

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Columbus Crew

CJ Brown	38 matches	1998 - 2010
Chris Armas	26 matches	1998 - 2007
Jesse Marsch	25 matches	1998 - 2005
Logan Pause	24 matches	2003 - 2012
Zach Thornton	23 matches	1998 - 2006
Jim Curtin	21 matches	2001 - 2007

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

Jeff Cunningham	26 matches	1998 - 2011
Chad Marshall	22 matches	2004 - 2011
Mike Clark	20 matches	1998 - 2003
Eddie Gaven	19 matches	2006 - 2012
Duncan Oughton	19 matches	2001 - 2007
Brian West	18 matches	1998 - 2003

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 06/06/1998. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Ante Razov

196 matches

7 matches

1998 - 2005

Jon Busch

77 matches

101 matches

2002 - 2009

Brian McBride

72 matches

199 matches

1996 - 2010

Andy Herron

72 matches

19 matches

2004 - 2008

Andy Williams

59 matches

43 matches

1998 - 2004

Tony Sanneh

36 matches

8 matches

2004 - 2006

Total : 13 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/04/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

They played in both sides

Brian McBride

72 matches

199 matches

1996 - 2010

Jon Busch

77 matches

101 matches

2002 - 2009

Andy Williams

59 matches

43 matches

1998 - 2004

Sulaiman Tenywa Bonseu

8 matches

31 matches

2000 - 2001

Jorge Salcedo

11 matches

30 matches

1997 - 1998

Ritchie Kotschau

31 matches

28 matches

1998 - 2006

Total : 13 players

First data collected by footballdatabase.eu on the 13/04/1996. All information before this date, if they exist, might be missing.

Competition info

Post-match general ranking

		pts	m	v	d	l	GF	GA	diff
1	Sporting Kansas City	55	30	16	7	7	37	25	+12
2	Chicago Fire	53	29	16	5	8	42	34	+8
3	New York Red Bulls	50	30	14	8	8	50	43	+7
4	D.C. United	47	29	14	5	10	46	39	+7
5	Houston Dynamo	46	29	12	10	7	41	34	+7
6	Columbus Crew	45	30	13	6	11	36	37	-1
7	Impact de Montréal	40	31	12	4	15	44	49	-5
8	New England Revolution	29	30	7	8	15	37	41	-4
9	Philadelphia Union	27	27	7	6	14	26	32	-6
10	Toronto FC	22	30	5	7	18	34	55	-21

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Chicago Fire 2-1 Columbus Crew - September 22, 2012 / MLS 2012

Chicago Fire

2 - 1

Columbus Crew

Team line-ups

First 11

First 11

Substitutes

Substitutes

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Changes in the starting players regarding the previous match

Manager

Klopas vs Columbus Crew

Klopas vs Warzycha

Manager

Warzycha vs Chicago Fire

Warzycha vs Klopas

Referee

Videos

Comments

Key figures

General ranking

General ranking

Pre-match

Current form

Current form

Running streaks

Running streaks

Statistical comparison of the season

Rankings

Ranking evolution during the season

Results

Goals

Betting aid

Bookings

Key players

Historical head to head

Historical head to head

Largest victory

Largest victory

Latest head to head

Best historical scorers against Columbus Crew

Best historical scorers against Chicago Fire

Players with most games played vs Columbus Crew

Players with most games played vs Chicago Fire

They played in both sides

They played in both sides

Competition info

Post-match general ranking