{"id":1018390,"date":"2026-08-23T03:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1018390\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T03:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T03:59:21","slug":"st-louis-city-ends-bonds-scoreless-streak-beats-dynamo-2-1-to-extend-unbeaten-run-to-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1018390\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis City ends Bond&#8217;s scoreless streak, beats Dynamo 2-1 to extend unbeaten run to 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Simon Becher had a first-half goal to end a long scoreless streak by Houston keeper Jonathan Bond, and rookie Dante Polvara added his first MLS goal in the second half as St. Louis City beat the Dynamo 2-1 on Saturday night to extend their club-record unbeaten streak to 11.<\/p>\n<p>\n               <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2091332734803210385?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Becher hit a turn-around<\/a> shot from the top of the box in the 23rd minute to halt Jonathan Bond\u2019s scoreless streak at 485 minutes and give St. Louis City a 1-0 lead. It was his career-high fifth goal of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\n               <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MLS\/status\/2091348826560880794?s=20\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ibrahim Aliyu scored<\/a> for the second time this season, unassisted in the 75th minute to tie it 1-all.<\/p>\n<p>Roman B\u00fcrki totaled three saves for St. Louis City, (9-6-6) which has gone 8-0-3 during its unbeaten run.<\/p>\n<p>Bond saved two shots for Houston (12-7-2), which entered with a 6-0-2 record in its previous eight matches as it climbed to the top of the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis City hasn&#8217;t lost since a 2-0 setback to Austin FC in a May 3 road match. The club has the longest unbeaten streak in the league this season, passing a 10-match run by Supporters&#8217; Shield-leading Nashville SC earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Houston fell for the first time since losing 3-0 to Real Salt Lake in a May 13 road match.<\/p>\n<p>The Dynamo tied a league record with five straight shutout victories<\/p>\n<p>Houston: Hosts San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis: Hosts FC Dallas on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n<p>See AP\u2019s full soccer coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS (AP) \u2014 Simon Becher had a first-half goal to end a long scoreless streak by Houston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1018391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[407613,4345,407612,34679,15765,184754,223492,223490,324434,289007,329767,324435,407614,23993,358,3187],"class_list":["post-1018390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-dante-polvara","tag-houston","tag-houston-dynamo-st-louis-city-score-mls","tag-ibrahim-aliyu","tag-jonathan-bond","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32554-ap-online-soccer-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40795-ap-missouri-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-simon-becher","tag-st-louis","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117142825416321273","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018390","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=1018390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1018391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}