{"id":188853,"date":"2025-08-31T06:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188853\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T06:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T06:05:13","slug":"match-report-st-louis-city-sc-falls-in-close-match-to-houston-dynamo-at-energizer-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/188853\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Report | St. Louis CITY SC Falls in Close Match to Houston Dynamo at Energizer Park\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis CITY SC fell 3-2 to Houston Dynamo on Saturday night at Energizer Park, nearly coming back to get a result after facing a three-goal deficit. Houston scored first in the 20th minute with a goal from Ezequiel Ponce and held the 1-0 lead into halftime. The Dynamo went on to score two more goals in the second half. Eduard L\u00f6wen got CITY SC on the board in the 86th minute, and then Homegrown forward Mykhi Joyner cut Houston\u2019s lead to one with his first MLS goal, in the 89th minute. St. Louis were knocking on the door in second half stoppage time but came short of an equalizer, with Houston earning the 3-2 win. St. Louis CITY SC continues their homestand next weekend, facing off against FC Dallas on Saturday, September 6 at 7:30 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eduard L\u00f6wen scored his fifth goal of the season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>L\u00f6wen has scored goals in back-to-back matches for CITY SC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Simon Becher recorded his second assist of the season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Mykhi Joyner scored his first career MLS goal and became the second Homegrown player in club history to score an MLS goal (previously done by Miguel Perez)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris Durkin tallied his first assist of the season<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Marcel Hartel registered his second assist in back-to-back matches<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Hartel has three goal contributions in the past three games for CITY SC (one goal, two assists)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>August 30, 2025 \u2013 Energizer Park (St. Louis, MO)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOU: Ezequiel Ponce<\/strong> <strong>(Jack McGlynn)<\/strong>, <strong>20<\/strong>th minute \u2013 Ezequiel Ponce scored with a header from the center of the box to the middle-left zone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOU: Henry Kessler (own goal),<\/strong> <strong>50<\/strong>th minute \u2013 Henry Kessler scored an own goal from the center of the box.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOU: Duane Holmes<\/strong> <strong>(Ondrej Lingr)<\/strong>, <strong>72nd<\/strong> <strong>minute \u2013<\/strong> Duane Holmes scored with a right footed shot from the center of the box to the upper left central zone.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STL:<\/strong> <strong>Eduard<\/strong> <strong>L\u00f6wen<\/strong> <strong>(Simon Becher)<\/strong>, <strong>86th<\/strong> <strong>minute \u2013<\/strong> Eduard L\u00f6wen scored with a right footed shot from the center of the box to the top right corner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>STL:<\/strong> <strong>Mykhi Joyner<\/strong> <strong>(Chris Durkin, Marcel Hartel)<\/strong>, <strong>86th<\/strong> <strong>minute \u2013<\/strong> Eduard L\u00f6wen scored with a right footed shot from the center of the box to the top right corner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOU:<\/strong> Ezequiel Ponce (Jack McGlynn), 20\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOU:<\/strong> Henry Kessler (own goal), 50\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOU:<\/strong> Duane Homes (Ondrej Lingr), 72\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>STL:<\/strong> Eduard L\u00f6wen (Simon Becher), 86\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>STL:<\/strong> Mykhi Joyner (Chris Durkin, Marcel Hartel), 89\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>STL:<\/strong> Eduard L\u00f6wen  (caution), 43\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOU:<\/strong> Ezequiel Ponce (caution), 45\u2019+2<\/p>\n<p><strong>STL:<\/strong> Alfredo Morales (caution), 53\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOU:<\/strong> Antonio Carlos (caution), 54\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOU:<\/strong> Felipe Andrade (caution), 58\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>STL:<\/strong> <strong>GK<\/strong> Roman B\u00fcrki \u00a9; <strong>D<\/strong> Conrad Wallem (Simon Becher, 69\u2019), <strong>D<\/strong> Timo Baumgartl (Fallou Fall, 59\u2019), <strong>D<\/strong> Henry Kessler, <strong>D<\/strong> Devin Padelford; <strong>M<\/strong> Alfredo Morales (Chris Durkin, 80\u2019), <strong>M<\/strong> Eduard L\u00f6wen; <strong>M<\/strong> Sangbin Jeong (C\u00e9lio Pompeu, 80\u2019), <strong>M<\/strong> Marcel Hartel, <strong>M<\/strong> Tom\u00e1\u0161 Ostr\u00e1k (Mykhi Joyner, 59\u2019); <strong>F<\/strong> Jo\u00e3o Klauss<\/p>\n<p><strong>Substitutes not used:<\/strong> <strong>GK<\/strong> Ben Lundt, <strong>D<\/strong> Tomas Totland, <strong>D<\/strong> Kyle Hiebert, <strong>D<\/strong> Jaziel Orozco, <strong>M<\/strong> Chris Durkin<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOTAL SHOTS: 13; SHOTS ON GOAL: 4; FOULS: 14; OFFSIDES: 1; CORNER KICKS: 11; SAVES: 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HOU:<\/strong> <strong>GK<\/strong> Jonathan Bond; <strong>D<\/strong> Felipe Andrade, <strong>D<\/strong> Erik Sviatchenko (Femi Awodesu, 75\u2019) , <strong>D<\/strong> Antonio Carlos, <strong>D<\/strong> Griffin Dorsey; <strong>M<\/strong> Artur \u00a9, <strong>M<\/strong> Ondrej Lingr, <strong>M<\/strong> Brooklyn Raines; <strong>F<\/strong> Lawrence Ennali (Duane Holmes, 69\u2019), <strong>F<\/strong> Ezequiel Ponce (Gabe Segal, 87\u2019), <strong>F<\/strong> Jack McGlynn (Franco Escobar, 87\u2019)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Substitutes not used:<\/strong> <strong>GK<\/strong> Jimmy Maurer, <strong>D<\/strong> Daniel Steres, <strong>M<\/strong> Junior Urso, <strong>F<\/strong> Amine Bassi, <strong>F<\/strong> Sebastian Kowalczyk<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOTAL SHOTS:<\/strong> <strong>8; SHOTS ON GOAL: 3; FOULS: 14; OFFSIDES: 0; CORNER KICKS: 3; SAVES: 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Referee:<\/strong> Ricardo Montoya Araya<\/p>\n<p><strong>Assistant Referees:<\/strong> Lyes Arfa, Jeffrey Greeson, Malik Badawi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Louis CITY SC fell 3-2 to Houston Dynamo on Saturday night at Energizer Park, nearly coming back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":188854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[105703,1322,4345,105702,3007,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-188853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-eduard-lowen","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-mykhi-joyner","12":"tag-team","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115121876270431881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188853","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=188853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}