{"id":55861,"date":"2025-10-22T22:55:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/chicago-fire-brush-aside-orlando-city-to-win-first-mls-playoff-game-since-2009\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T22:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T03:55:36","slug":"chicago-fire-brush-aside-orlando-city-to-win-first-mls-playoff-game-since-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/chicago-fire-brush-aside-orlando-city-to-win-first-mls-playoff-game-since-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Fire brush aside Orlando City to win first MLS playoff game since 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Hugo Cuypers scores twice to win Wild Card match<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Chicago advances to face Philadelphia in Round 1<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hugo Cuypers recorded a second-half brace and the Chicago Fire picked up their first playoff win in 16 years with a dominating 3-1 triumph over Orlando City in an Eastern Conference wild-card match on Wednesday night in Bridgeview, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Guti\u00e9rrez also scored for the eighth-seeded Fire, who ended the longest playoff-victory drought in MLS history. It also was Chicago\u2019s first postseason match since 2017.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/oct\/22\/chicago-fire-orlando-city-mls-playoffs\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Cuypers scores twice to win Wild Card match Chicago advances to face Philadelphia in Round 1 Hugo Cuypers recorded a second-half brace and the Chicago Fire picked up their first playoff win in 16 years with a dominating 3-1 triumph over Orlando City in an Eastern Conference wild-card match on Wednesday night in Bridgeview, &#8230; <a title=\"Chicago Fire brush aside Orlando City to win first MLS playoff game since 2009\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/22\/chicago-fire-brush-aside-orlando-city-to-win-first-mls-playoff-game-since-2009\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Chicago Fire brush aside Orlando City to win first MLS playoff game since 2009\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}