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Peter Green - March 2, 2023
Chicago Fire vs New York City Predictions and Free Tips from our expert tipsters when the teams go head-to-head in the Major League Soccer on Sunday, 5 March 2023.
Chicago Fire have not started their first fixture of this fresh MLS season. They will be hoping for a much better run unlike their past season in which they finished at 12th in the Eastern Conference table.
The team will be facing New York City in their opening fixture as the visiting rivals. The guests have already started off this season with a defeat against Nashville SC.
New York City is on a three-game winning streak against Chicago Fire in the league. The past five meeting between these two had goals under 2.5 ft.
At this venue, the past four overall wins was evenly split, with two each for both teams.
Chicago Fire was unbeaten in five of the last six home matches. Meanwhile, New York City lost three of the last four road trips, including a 2-0 opening fixture defeat against Nashville SC.
Since Chicago Fire displays a better form in the recent outings, we expect a win for them on Sunday despite of the h2h upper hand of New York City.
The past three home matches of Chicago Fire saw the landing of over 2.5 goals option. They have been scoring goals at a good rate lately. The case of New York City isn’t different too. Thus, we expect this match to have goals over 2.5 ft unlike their recent h2h recordings.
We do expect a both teams scoring scenario here as both these teams have leaked goals consistently in the past many matches at respective patches.
The post 2022 MLS display of Chicago Fire is much better than New York City. With the aid of home advantage, they will be having some spirits to start off this season by sealing a win over this New York City on Sunday.
We therefore like to place Chicago Fore to win as the main betting pick at 2.45 odds. For the second tip, we like to place the over 2.5 goals option at 1.88 odds.
