Philip Zinckernagel and Hugo Cuypers scored two targets apiece, Maren Haile-Selassie added a objective and an help, and the Chicago Fire beat Sporting Kansas City 5-0 on Saturday night time at Soldier Field.
Chicago (5-2-2) is unbeaten in its final 5 video games, with 4 wins. Kansas City has misplaced 5 consecutive video games.
Sporting (1-7-1), which has been outscored 18-3 throughout its skid, has a minus-18 objective differential this season, the worst in MLS.
Zinckernagel opened the scoring in the 52nd minute. John Pulskamp made a diving cease on a penalty kick by Cuypers, however Zinckernagel put away the rebound from point-blank vary.
The 31-year-old midfielder — who had 15 targets and 15 assists in his first MLS marketing campaign final season — has a objective in back-to-back video games.
Zinckernagel scored from the middle of the realm in the sixty fifth minute and performed a cross to Cuypers for a first-touch end in the 73rd. Haile-Selassie, on the counter-attack, reduce to evade Pulskamp on the edge of the 18-yard field and put away an empty-netter in the 79th, and Cuypers capped the scoring in the eighth minute of stoppage time.
The Fire had 69% possession and outshot Kansas City 18-7, 7-1 on track.