Chicago Fire 2 (4-10-6), New York Red Bulls 2 (9-9-5)
Sunday, July 31, 2016 - 7 p.m. ET
Red Bull Arena - Harrison, N.J.
Box Score: //matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter/2016-07-31-chicago-fire-vs-new-york-red-bulls/boxscore
Scoring Summary:
NY - Matt Polster (own goal) 16'
CHI - David Accam (5) (unassisted) 35'
CHI - Matt Polster (1) (John Goossens) 38'
NY - Bradley Wright-Phillips (12) (Connor Lade) 90'
Misconduct Summary:
NY - Felipe (caution, foul) 15'
CHI - Khaly Thiam (caution, foul) 38'
NY - Mike Grella (caution, foul) 57'
CHI - Razvan Cocis (caution, foul) 76'
New York Red Bulls: Luis Robles; Connor Lade, Ronald Zubar, Aurelien Collin, Sal Zizzo (Justin Bilyeu, 73'), Dax McCarty © (Sean Davis, 42'), Alex Muyl (Gonzalo Veron, 55'), Sacha Kljestan, Mike Grella, Bradley Wright-Phillips
TOTAL SHOTS: 12; SHOTS ON GOAL: 2; FOULS: 9; OFFSIDE: 1; CORNER KICKS: 10; SAVES: 2
Chicago Fire: Sean Johnson; Michael Harrington, Joao Meira (Jonathan Campbell, 43') Rodrigo Ramos, Johan Kappelhof, David Accam, Arturo Alvarez (Razvan Cocis, 60'), Matt Polster, John Goossens, Khaly Thiam, Michael de Leeuw
TOTAL SHOTS: 7; SHOTS ON GOAL: 4; FOULS: 19; OFFSIDE: 6; CORNER KICKS: 1; SAVES: 1.
Referee: Fotis Bazakos
Referee's Assistants: Brian Poeschel, Logan Brown
4th Official: Chris Penso
Attendance: 17,221
- The New York Red Bulls earned a 2-2 draw at the Chicago Fire Sunday evening. Bradley Wright-Phillips scored his team-best 12th goal of the season in the 90th minute to secure the point for New York.
- Bradley Wright-Phillips became New York's all-time leading scorer in franchise history with his 63rd goal in all competitions. He passed Juan Pablo Angel (62 goals) in the franchise record book.
- BWP has 57 MLS goals and six in the MLS Playoffs while JPA finished his career with 58 league goals, three goals in the playoffs and one U.S. Open Cup goal.
- The BWP goal was the sixth this season for New York in the final 15 minutes of a match.
- Bradley Wright-Phillips is now tied for second in MLS with 12 goals in 2016.
- The Red Bulls are 9-9-5 on the season, 1-7-4 on the road.
- The Red Bulls are 16-25-11 all-time against the Fire, and 4-14-8 at Chicago.
- Robles made his 129th regular season start in goal for New York and made two saves in the draw.
- New York is 41-38-22 all-time in the month of July. New York has scored 157 goals in July and allowed 157.
- New York returns home on Wednesday, August 3 for the opening match of the Scotiabank CONCACAF Champions League group stage against Antigua Guatemala FC. Kickoff from Red Bull Arena is set for 8 p.m. Coverage begins at 7 p.m. on Red Bulls Radio Wednesday.
- MLS action resumes with a trip to Los Angeles to face the Galaxy next Sunday, August 7. Kickoff is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. ET, with coverage on Fox Sports 1 and Red Bulls Radio.
