The Chicago Fire have played four matches at home thus far in 2018, but they've only mustered four points from those matches after their Week 7 loss to the LA Galaxy.

A game-winning goal by Zlatan Ibrahimovic has the Fire reflecting on what's been a rough start to the campaign for a team that had the third best regular season record in 2017.

Head coach Veljko Paunovic was fielding questions about potential reinforcements ahead of the close of the primary transfer window on May 1, while Dax McCarty was not pulling punches: "We're below average right now and the results speak to that."