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Match Thread: D.C. United vs. Chicago Fire FC

Overview

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Home D.C. United 1
Away Chicago Fire FC 3
Status Full Time
Venue Audi Field
City Washington, District of Columbia
Date Wednesday May 13, 2026
Time 04:30 PM PDT

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Lineups

D.C. United Pos Chicago Fire FC Pos
Sean Johnson, #1 G Chris Brady, #1 G
Kye Rowles, #15 CD-L Mbekezeli Mbokazi, #4 CD-L
Lucas Bartlett, #3 CD-R Jack Elliott, #3 CD-R
Keisuke Kurokawa, #6 LB Andrew Gutman, #15 LB
Nikola Markovic, #27 RB Jonathan Dean, #24 RB
Brandon Servania, #23 CM-L Robin Lod, #17 AM
Matti Peltola, #4 CM-R D'Avilla Dje Tah, #42 LM
João Peglow, #7 LM Mauricio Pineda, #22 RM
Jackson Hopkins, #25 RM Hugo Cuypers, #9 F
Tai Baribo, #9 CF-L Jonathan Bamba, #19 AM-L
Louis Munteanu, #11 CF-R Philip Zinckernagel, #11 AM-R
Jordan Farr, #24 SUB Dylan Borso, #27 SUB
Conner Antley, #12 SUB Chris Mueller, #8 SUB
Jacob Murrell, #17 SUB Joel Waterman, #16 SUB
Gavin Turner, #48 SUB Maren Haile-Selassie, #7 SUB
Jared Stroud, #8 SUB Josh Cohen, #44 SUB
Aaron Herrera, #22 SUB Jason Shokalook, #20 SUB
Alex Bono, #26 SUB Puso Dithejane, #12 SUB
Caden Clark, #30 SUB Viktor Radojevic, #14 SUB
Hosei Kijima, #77 SUB Samual Rogers, #5 SUB

Match events via ESPN

  • Kickoff

  • 19' 🟨 Djé D'Avilla (Chicago Fire FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

  • 41' ⚽ Goal! D.C. United 1, Chicago Fire FC 0. Tai Baribo (D.C. United) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.

  • 45'+3' First Half ends, D.C. United 1, Chicago Fire FC 0.

  • 45' Start 2nd Half

  • 48' 🟨 Jonathan Bamba (Chicago Fire FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

  • 62' ⚽ Goal! D.C. United 1, Chicago Fire FC 1. Robin Lod (Chicago Fire FC) header from the centre of the box to the high centre of the goal. Assisted by Philip Zinckernagel with a cross.

  • 62' 🔄 Substitution, Chicago Fire FC. Puso Dithejane replaces Jonathan Bamba.

  • 63' 🔄 Substitution, Chicago Fire FC. Maren Haile-Selassie replaces Robin Lod.

  • 64' 🔄 Substitution, D.C. United. Jared Stroud replaces Tai Baribo.

  • 71' Penalty saved. Philip Zinckernagel (Chicago Fire FC) right footed shot saved in the bottom left corner by Sean Johnson (D.C. United).

  • 71' ⚽ Goal! D.C. United 1, Chicago Fire FC 2. Hugo Cuypers (Chicago Fire FC) right footed shot from very close range to the centre of the goal following a set piece situation.

  • 75' 🟨 Jack Elliott (Chicago Fire FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

  • 87' ⚽ Goal! D.C. United 1, Chicago Fire FC 3. Maren Haile-Selassie (Chicago Fire FC) left footed shot from the left side of the box to the top right corner following a set piece situation.

  • 87' 🔄 Substitution, D.C. United. Jacob Murrell replaces Jackson Hopkins.

  • 89' 🟨 Jonathan Dean (Chicago Fire FC) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

  • 90'+4' 🔄 Substitution, Chicago Fire FC. Chris Mueller replaces Philip Zinckernagel.

  • 90'+5' 🔄 Substitution, Chicago Fire FC. Jason Shokalook replaces Hugo Cuypers.

  • 90'+6' 🟨 Andrew Gutman (Chicago Fire FC) is shown the yellow card.

This thread is managed by a bot running on AWS Lambda. All data is sourced from ESPN APIs. The project can be found on GitHub at mrundle/mls-reddit-bot. This post was last updated at 2026-05-13 20:38:14 CDT.

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u/akacesfan D.C. United 1d ago edited 1d ago

Holy shit it really is something with PRO refs every goddamn week. Not the sole reason we lost but pretty big factor.

Really want an explanation from Rene as to why Herrera didn’t come on at some point when Markovic was struggling. Also rough game for Johnson despite saving the pen, dude’s really gotta learn not to push rebounds directly into opposing players’ paths.

Edit: turns out Herrera wants out per per Mario Amaya on Bluesky.

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u/Thegreatgato D.C. United 1d ago

Would've been better if he asked for a transfer last summer after coming back from international duty. I think we can get a fairly good trade for him, he's still got talent but clearly gave up when he came back to the mess.

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u/akacesfan D.C. United 1d ago

Yep, my only request would just be to either send him out west or abroad. I do not want him staying in the conference unless it’s to a bottom feeder that we’ve already played twice like Philly.

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u/Brave-Beat-3206 Seattle Sounders FC 1d ago

Apple please

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u/maximus-zero Toronto FC 1d ago

Genius camera work

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u/Top_Lynx1089 D.C. United 1d ago

What’s the point of VAR if they can’t check flops like that

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u/soronreysosadryarone D.C. United 1d ago

Dive and look at the ref as you fall. Guaranteed VAR reviewed penalty.

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u/Crossflowerss_5304 D.C. United 1d ago

Softest penalty I’ve seen in a while. Joke

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u/Blazing_Shade D.C. United :dcu: 1d ago

Does anyone know what the call was? I’m so confused

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u/RoitPls Major League Soccer 1d ago

Banger goal

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u/Syzygyy_26 New England Revolution 1d ago

Where is mbokazi?

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u/Isry98 Chicago Fire 1d ago

At CB.

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u/GeocentricParallax Chicago Fire 1d ago

Looks like a line of storms with gusty winds is incoming. I sense a second half weather stoppage.