{"id":112722,"date":"2025-08-02T10:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112722\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T10:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:28:16","slug":"houston-dynamo-fc-fall-to-mazatlan-f-c-0-2-in-leagues-cup-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/112722\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo FC fall to Mazatl\u00e1n F.C., 0-2, in Leagues Cup play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOUSTON (Aug. 1, 2025) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC<\/strong> fell by a 2-0 score to Mazatl\u00e1n F.C. on Friday at <strong>Shell Energy Stadium<\/strong> in the Club\u2019s second contest in Leagues Cup Phase One action.<\/p>\n<p>Goals from Facundo Almada and F\u00e1bio Gomes found the net and Nicol\u00e1s Benedetti assisted twice for Los Ca\u00f1oneros, who \u2013 at least temporarily \u2013 moved to the top of the Liga MX Leagues Cup table.<\/p>\n<p>In the 25th minute, Mazatl\u00e1n opened the scoring against the run of play. Benedetti chipped in an out-swinging corner, finding the head of a streaking Almada, who had shaken free of his defender. Almada rose for a powerful header past a diving <strong>Pedro Cruz<\/strong>, who was making his first team debut on the evening, after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/dynamo2\/news\/houston-dynamo-2-goalkeeper-pedro-cruz-wins-2025-goalie-wars-title-at-mls-all-star-skills-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">winning the MLS Next Pro Goalie Wars<\/a> at last week\u2019s MLS All-Star Week in Austin.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that score, Dynamo held the lead in shots, shots on goal, possession, final third entries, touches in the opponent\u2019s box, and expected goals. In the 41st minute, Almada nearly picked up a second headed goal, on yet another cross from Benedetti. Almada\u2019s powered the header low and to Cruz\u2019s right, but the 21-year-old keeper got down quickly to parry away the opportunity and hold the deficit at one.<\/p>\n<p>Dynamo FC came close to leveling the score in the opening minute of first half stoppage time, as <strong>Femi Awodesu<\/strong> found a loose ball in the Mazatl\u00e1n box and blasted off the crossbar. The rebound bounced out to <strong>Erik Due\u00f1as<\/strong>, who took the volley on the right foot from just outside the box. Mazatl\u00e1n keeper Ricardo Guti\u00e9rrez dove to his left for a terrific save, and Mazatl\u00e1n took a one-goal lead into the break.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Los Ca\u00f1oneros doubled their advantage on the foot of Gomes. A Dynamo turnover just past the center line found Benedetti, who played a long through ball to Gomes, who slipped between two defenders and slowly tucked to the near post past Cruz for the final 2-0 tally.<\/p>\n<p>Dynamo wrap up Phase One play on Tuesday, Aug. 5, hosting Liga MX side CF Pachuca at <strong>Shell Energy Stadium<\/strong>, with kickoff scheduled for 7:30 p.m. CT. Tickets for that match are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/tickets\/single-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (Aug. 1, 2025) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC fell by a 2-0 score to Mazatl\u00e1n F.C. on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[71253,15757,4345,15755,71251,71252,45648,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-112722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-erik-duenas","9":"tag-hdfc-app","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-houston-dynamo-fc","12":"tag-houston-dynamo-photos","13":"tag-obafemi-awodesu","14":"tag-pedro-cruz","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114958703204288685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112722","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=112722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}