Thursday, June 9, 2011

Fire, K.C. struggle for scoreless draw

Fire's Corben Bone (right) -- Getty Images
By Charlie Corr
ESPNChicago.com

Two struggling teams at the bottom of the Eastern Conference table clearly could not find some flow within their play on Thursday.

The Chicago Fire and last-place Sporting Kansas City played to a scoreless draw as K.C. opened up Livestrong Sporting Park in front of a sold-out crowd of 19,925 in Kansas City, Kan.

Chicago (1-4-8) saw its team-high winless streak reach 11 games (0-4-7), and Sporting (1-6-4) had to play down a man for a half hour to salvage the draw.

"When we were a man up, we could have done a little better in the final third," Fire interim head coach Frank Klopas said. "I thought we were predictable with the ball. Our movement wasn't great. We could have been a little bit sharper."

Read more at ESPNChicago.com.

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