The Bonfire | Familiar Faces & Places | S4:E22

About this episode

John and Tim discuss the upcoming match between the Fire and Sporting Kansas City, focusing on team expectations and postseason implications.

The Fire set to host Sporting Kansas City, a team featuring familiar faces in Raphaël Wicky and Justin Reynolds on Saturday. That's not all that's familiar about this year's SKC team: Like the Fire in so many years past, they're on the outside of the postseason looking in, as everything seems to have gone wrong in Kansas City, with little hope on the horizon. The Fire, meanwhile, are now a team with something unfamiliar from years past — expectations, including expectations of a win against bottom-of-table opponents. John and Tim talk about what that means, and what counts as success when the expectation is already three points.

People in this episode

Hosts: John, Tim

Topics covered

• soccer
• MLS
• postseason
• team expectations
• Sporting Kansas City
• Chicago Fire

Keywords

• Chicago Fire
• Sporting Kansas City
• MLS
• soccer
• postseason
• expectations
• John
• Tim

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sporting Kansas City, Fire

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