Haile-Selassie rules Soldier Field while our index puts Müller in his place

Our index hands the night to Maren Haile-Selassie: an 8.5 that leads every grade at Soldier Field and sits 0.7 above the reference rating. Philip Zinckernagel backs him up at 8.3, a full 1.2 clear of his reference mark — in a 3-1 win over Vancouver, we rate Chicago's front line as the story, not just the scoreline.

That gap is the sharpest disagreement of the match. Müller played only 45 minutes and our position-weighted, per-90 model saw no production to justify a 7.4 — Ryan Gauld (5.8), Brian White (5.5) and Yohei Takaoka (5.2) dragged Vancouver down with him. We were equally unsentimental about the winners: Jonathan Bamba (6.0 vs 7.8) and Johan Gomez (6.3 vs 7.6) both fell well short of their reference marks.

The middle ground belongs to Chicago's spine — Jack Elliott 7.3, Mbekezeli Mbokazi 7.2, Leonardo Barroso 7.2 — while Tristan Blackmon's 7.4 made him the only visitor our index rated above 7.