BRIDGEVIEW, Sick. — Hugo Cuypers scored two second-half objectives, Brian Gutiérrez added one other and the Chicago Fireplace superior out of the wild-card spherical with a 3-1 victory over Orlando Metropolis on Wednesday evening.
Chicago strikes on to play the Supporters’ Protect-winning Philadelphia Union in a best-of-three first-round playoff sequence. The Fireplace are within the playoffs for the primary time since 2017 underneath first-year head coach Gregg Berhalter, the previous U.S. males’s nationwide crew coach.
Orlando Metropolis, which had superior past the primary spherical in every of the previous two playoffs, had only one win in its final eight video games.
Gutiérrez and Cuypers every scored a aim within the opening 12 minutes of the second half for a 2-0 lead.
Gutiérrez settled a Jonathan Dean cross in entrance of aim together with his left leg and despatched in a shot together with his proper foot within the forty eighth minute.
Cuypers scored within the 57th on a hustle play when he bought a foot on Pedro Gallese’s clearance try and it was redirected into the again of the web. Cuypers added one other within the 68th off a move from Philip Zinckernagel for a 3-0 benefit.
Tyrese Spicer scored for Orlando within the 89th.
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