FCD, Chicago aiming to get on track

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05/26/2010 - Bridgeview, IL (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - FC Dallas travels to take on the Chicago Fire in a mid-week Major League Soccer clash on Thursday night at Toyota Park.

Both teams are sitting on just two wins to start the season, while taking winless streaks into Thursday's fixture.

Dallas (2-2-5) is coming off a 1-0 loss to the Los Angeles Galaxy in what coach Schellas Hyndman called his team's "worst performance since I've been here."

"I think we're too good of a team to have that poor of a performance," he told mlssoccer.com. "It was just very disjointed. I think we're much better than that."

The loss was just FCD's second of the season, but because of its five draws, it needs to pick up the pace to stay in the playoff race almost a third of the way into the season.

Chicago (2-3-3), which hasn't been much better, is on a three-game winless streak. A 2-2 draw at Kansas City last weekend in which it jumped out to a 2-0 advantage before being forced to share the points feels like a loss.

"Giving up that goal right after we scored the second one really hurt us," Fire midfielder Logan Pause said. "It is pretty disheartening, to go up two to zero and work extremely hard, but with the amount of pressure the Wizards put on and the numbers they throw we really needed another goal to put it away, but unfortunately we dropped points. The way this locker room feels right now this game was like a loss. We did enough to win this game, but we did drop two points and we aren't happy about it, regardless if it was on the road."

"We started very well, and we finished bad,' Fire coach Carlos de los Cobos said. "We defended very close to our box, in the last few minutes of the first half we played with a lot of risk, and they pushed us. In the second half, the substitutions performed well and changed the face of the team. But it was a difficult game because they are a very good team with good players. I am happy with our players, they worked hard, but the end result was not good for us."

The Fire will have to find a way to rebound without forward Calen Carr, midfielder John Thorrington, and defender Tim Ward because of injuries. Defender Mike Banner is also questionable with a quad injury.

FC Dallas is relatively healthy, with only midfielder Marvin Chavez and his ankle injury showing up on the injury report.

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The Nebraska athletic department said in a release Monday that Lucky was admitted Sunday night.

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A nursing supervisor at the hospital said all questions about Lucky were being referred to the athletic department. The athletic department said there would be no further comment from the department or Lucky's family.

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