D.C. United and the Chicago Fire will look to build off what could be watershed results when they meet Saturday night in the nation's capital.

D.C. (4-7-6, 18 points) scored on two corner kicks in the first half of a 2-1 upset at FC Cincinnati last weekend.

Brazilian Gabriel Pirani scored the first, then provided the final cross to Conner Antley on the second as the Black-and-Red snapped a six-match winless run in all competitions.

Now the task will be stringing together consecutive results to try to make up a seven-point gap between 12th-place D.C. and the nine Eastern Conference playoff places.

"Internally, we believe in ourselves to be able to go and compete with anyone," D.C. manager Troy Lesesne said. "And in order to get a little bit more of that confidence externally, I t

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