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Fire 2, Chivas USA 1

CARSON, Calif. -- Chivas USA scored its first goal at home this season. The Goats couldn't collect their first win.

Marco Pappa scored in the third minute of stoppage to give Chicago a 2-1 victory over the Goats on Friday night at Home Depot Center.

Rookie Austin Berry, making his Major League Soccer debut, gave Chivas a first-half penalty kick, then answered back within three minutes, volleying inside the left post.

The Fire (3-2-2), with suspended head coach Frank Klopas cheering on the team from a luxury box, extended their unbeaten streak against Chivas in all competitions to nine games, dating to August 2008, while posting a second straight road win.

Chivas (3-6-0) remained winless at home and lost Ecuadoran midfield leader Oswaldo Minda for next weekend's game at Western Conference leader San Jose. Minda picked up his fifth yellow card of the season, good for a one-game suspension, after tripping Sebastian Grazzini just 16 minutes in.

Pappa, a force all game, fired inside the left post from about 22 yards after a give-and-go on the right flank with second-half substitute Federico Puppo.

Berry dragged down Alejandro Moreno to set up Juan Pablo Angel's 23rd-minute spot kick, ending a 382-minute home drought -- over four 1-0 losses -- to start the season for Chivas, which has scored just five goals, worst in the league and fewer than four players' totals through 8 1/2 weeks.

The Fire (2-2-2) equalized almost immediately following a long throw-in from the right flank by Dan Gargan. Chivas defender Rauwshan McKenzie headed the ball out of the Goats' box and Grazzini collected the ball, turned and chipped it back into the goalmouth with three precise touches.

Berry slipped behind McKenzie and fellow center back John Alexander Valencia and redirected the ball past goalkeeper Dan Kennedy to the lower-left corner.

Chicago used Dominic Oduro's speed and Pappa's delivery, especially on set pieces, to challenge the Goats, forcing Kennedy to make several big saves to keep Chivs even. The best were back-to-back stops in the 62nd minute -- a diving save on Grazzini and a leg stop on Oduro's point-blank rebound -- a diving parry of Pappa's low blast in the 80th minute and tipping a Pavel Pardo shot over the crossbar in second-half stoppage.

Chivas struggled to turn its possession into chances, a recurrent theme this season.

Chivas head coach Robin Fraser, who is 5-12-5 in home games during his 16-month tenure, switched from a one-forward alignment to a 4-4-2 with a diamond midfield, the formation he primarily used last season, pairing Angel and fellow veteran Alejandro Moreno up top. He gave Valencia, a Colombian newcomer, and Jorge Villafana their first starts -- moving center back Heath Pearce to left back in place of Ante Jazic -- and brought on Michael Lahoud, coming off a hamstring injury, for his first appearance this season in the second half.

Colombian forward Jose Erik Correa, an end-of-transfer-window signing who trained for the first time with Chivas on Monday, made his debut in the 70th minute.

Berry was starting in place of Jalil Anibaba, who was suspended after receiving a postgame red card for his role in a fight that broke out at the end of Chicago's loss last week to Seattle.