Colorado Rapids vs Chicago Fire 2-4

Chicago Fire came from behind to win 4-2 after a second-half burst turned a level match. Robert Lewandowski came off the bench and set up the late break before Puso Dithejane made it 4-2 on 88 minutes.

Morgan Whittaker opened the scoring for Colorado Rapids in the 22nd minute, finishing from Georgi Minoungou. Jonathan Bamba equalised on 41 minutes, then put Chicago ahead again in the 56th minute from Jonathan Dean. Paxten Aaronson answered two minutes later, again with Minoungou involved, to make it 2-2 at half-time.

The match swung again after the interval. Colorado made two changes on 62 minutes, while Chicago made two on 63 minutes, including Lewandowski for Maren Haile-Selassie. Bamba's second of the match put Chicago 3-2 up, and Lewandowski, who came on in the 63rd minute, then set up Dithejane, who had come on in the 87th minute, to make it 4-2.

Colorado had 57% of the ball and 502 passes to Chicago's 376, but both sides had 14 shots and Chicago had the better return on target, 6 to 4. Chicago also finished with 2.37 expected goals to Colorado's 1.45, and with 6 corners to 5. Colorado were flagged offside none times, while Chicago were caught 5 times.

Noah Allen was booked in first-half stoppage time for Chicago. Colorado's yellow cards went to Miguel Navarro on 51 minutes, Hamzat Ojediran on 68, Theodore Ku-DiPietro on 70 and Rob Holding on 90. Chicago also booked Andrew Gutman in the second minute of stoppage time.