It doesn’t take that much squinting to see some positives from the Fire’s 0-1-2 start.
Yes, they are the lone winless Eastern Conference team entering Saturday’s match at Inter Miami, but the Fire stood up to league heavyweight Philadelphia Union while down a man for almost the entire second half before giving up the game-winning goal in the 90th minute. Then, despite going without five starting-level players a week later, they were comprehensively better than FC Cincinnati for 75 minutes before a late collapse that led to a 3-3 tie.
