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Chicago aiming to end winless run at Toronto

May 13, 2011 - 8:16 PM Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - The Chicago Fire take their six-game winless run to BMO Field where they will take on a Toronto FC squad on short rest.

The Fire, who are second-to-last in the Eastern table, have earned draws in three straight after losing three straight following their only win of the season on March 26.

The teams in coming off a scoreless draw vs. the expansion Vancouver Whitecaps FC in their last league match.

"It's just upsetting," Fire midfielder Corben Bone told his club's website. "You work hard the whole game to get those chances and they end up not going in the net. It's just frustrating."

"We're disappointed because we couldn't get the points," Fire defender Gonzalo Segares told mlssoccer.com after the match. "We were pretty close but we have to finish, and we couldn't. This is a tough one to swallow."

Chicago has a chance to break the winless run against a Toronto team that suffered a 1-0 loss at FC Dallas on Wednesday.

The only goal Toronto gave up was a penalty kick in first-half stoppage time, so it feels it played a solid road effort even though it didn't come away with any points on Wednesday.

"I think we were just unlucky," TFC midfielder Tony Tchani said. "They [FC Dallas] played quite well, but we got unlucky."

TFC coach Aron Winter was obviously not happy with the game deciding PK call.

"It's always difficult because every game it looks like it's not the players on the pitch that are playing," he said. "It is more of a referee show now. I'm upset because every week it's something different with a referee. It makes me upset because we are improving every game. We're playing well, but with those things you can never win the game. Every week it gets worse."

The loss comes on the heals of the Reds' second win of the season this past Saturday, which snapped their own six-game winless run.

"We started well, we didn't play bad, but if you have a decision by the ref like that - that is horrible," Winter added.






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