Chicago, Busch aim to rebound at home vs. FC Dallas
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09/20/2008 - Bridgeview, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Fire host FC Dallas in a Major League Soccer fixture on Sunday afternoon at Toyota Park in an important fixture for both teams' playoff status.
The Fire (11-8-5) are currently in third in the Eastern Conference table and will be looking to distance themselves from fourth-place New York with a victory Sunday.
Dallas, on the other hand, is second to last in the Western table and needs the three points to have a chance at jumping into the top three, which are all guaranteed playoff spots.
Chicago is coming off a 2-0 loss at Colorado last week and will be aiming to rebound after goalkeeper Jon Busch - who has been rock-solid all season - had a sub-par game which led to the loss.
"To be honest, not to take anything away from them, but they didn't beat us," Busch said. "We beat ourselves. Those two goals normally don't happen. The worst thing, we should have come out of here 0-0. It was just poor goalkeeping on my part."
"Jon Busch has bailed us out many games," Chicago coach Denis Hamlett said. "There's no finger pointing. He's a guy we're behind 100 percent, and he knows he could have done better than that. We move on. He's having a great season and he's a very good goalie. Those things happen. If we could have just kept it 1-0, we could have had a little better chance to regroup the second half. But we didn't, and you just move forward."
FC Dallas (6-9-9) is coming off a 2-2 tie at D.C. United and will be aiming for another positive result on the road at an Eastern Conference powerhouse. The Hoops scored the game's first goal last week before giving up two and had to fight to earn a point in the end.
"We just need to do a little better job protecting it [the lead] but [Saturday] was really a little bit about character," Hoops coach Schellas Hyndman said. "Normally when we go down, we don't come back; they drop their heads, drop the effort and this is what we keep talking about. It's attitude. I was really proud of the boys how they fought all the way until the end."
Hoops forward Kenny Cooper scored a goal in the game - his 14th of the season - to help break out of a mini slump, which could go a long way toward Dallas making a strong playoff push in the last six games.
Another key will be the play of the Hoops' improved midfield.
"We have a lot of quality in the midfield," Cooper said. "We have not only guys who can play well defensively but guys who can play a killer pass too. Andre Rocha is like a quarterback so guys up front like Dom [Dominic Oduro] and Jeff [Cunningham] who have so much speed so we can look for him to thread us through. The midfielders played some great balls [last week] and we had some great opportunities."
"If you look back at D.C. United's game, they possessed the ball better but they didn't beat us in the midfield," Hyndman said. "They beat us on the flanks. One of the reasons they didn't beat us in the midfield was because Bruno [Guarda] and [Marcelo] Saragosa owned the midfield because of their hard work, energy and working. Now what we've got to do is be a little bit better defending as a group. We're getting there. It's taken me four to four and a half weeks to get Andre [Rocha] to buy into it and I thought he had a good game."
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