{"id":1005762,"date":"2026-08-17T03:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1005762\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T03:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T03:54:22","slug":"petar-musa-scores-mls-best-14th-goal-to-rally-fc-dallas-past-austin-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1005762\/","title":{"rendered":"Petar Musa scores MLS-best 14th goal to rally FC Dallas past Austin FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN (AP) \u2014 Petar Musa scored his league-leading 14th goal and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/fc-dallas\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FC Dallas<\/a> beat Austin FC 2-1 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2089175545686696164?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Musa scored\u00a0in the 73rd minute<\/a> \u2014 with some help from Joaqu\u00edn Valiente \u2014 to set the final margin. Valiente has six assists through his first 17 appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Defender Lalas\u00a0Abubakar took a corner kick from Santiago Moreno and scored with a header two minutes into stoppage time to give FCD a 1-0 lead at halftime.<\/p>\n<p>Moreno collected his second assist of the campaign on Abubakar&#8217;s first netter this season and his 13th in 201 career matches.<\/p>\n<p>Eighteen-year-old Ervin\u00a0Torres scored\u00a0his first career goal in spectacular fashion \u2014 unassisted in the 57th minute to pull Austin even.<\/p>\n<p>Torres, a homegrown product, saw action for the sixth time this season after making one 7-minute appearance in both 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Sirois finished with two saves for FCD (8-5-6), including one during second-half stoppage time on a shot by Jayden Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Stuver saved four shots for Austin (4-10-5). The veteran entered with 89 saves \u2014 tops in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Austin has struggled under interim coach Davy Arnaud. Former Union coach Jim Curtain will take the reins following the season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FC Dallas:<\/strong> At Real Salt Lake on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Austin FC:<\/strong> At Seattle Sounders on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN (AP) \u2014 Petar Musa scored his league-leading 14th goal and FC Dallas beat Austin FC 2-1 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1005763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,347,1596,15519,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1005762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-fc-dallas","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117108832129037267","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}