Chicago Fire brush aside Orlando City to win first MLS playoff game since 2009

• Hugo Cuypers scores twice to win Wild Card match

• Chicago advances to face Philadelphia in Round 1

Hugo Cuypers recorded a second-half brace and the Chicago Fire picked up their first playoff win in 16 years with a dominating 3-1 triumph over Orlando City in an Eastern Conference wild-card match on Wednesday night in Bridgeview, Illinois.

Brian Gutierrez also scored for the eighth-seeded Fire, who ended the longest playoff-victory drought in MLS history. It also was Chicago's first postseason match since 2017.