{"id":228313,"date":"2025-09-15T08:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228313\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T08:52:12","slug":"houston-dynamo-2-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/228313\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

GREELEY, Colo. (Sept. 14, 2025) \u2013 Houston Dynamo 2<\/strong> earned their fourth clean sheet of the season with a 1-0 road victory over Colorado Rapids 2 this afternoon. Houston played the last 55 minutes of the match with 10 men after first-team defender Femi<\/strong> Awodesu<\/strong> received a red card for denying a Colorado goal scoring opportunity. With today\u2019s result, both sides finished the season series with one win, one loss and one draw each.<\/p>\n

Goalkeeper and 2025 Goalie Wars winner Pedro<\/strong> Cruz<\/strong> contributed five saves to today\u2019s clean sheet, alongside a strong defensive performance from Houston\u2019s backline, including defender Isaac<\/strong> Mwakutuya<\/strong>. The victory brings Dynamo 2 to just two spots and four points outside the playoff line. Houston now has three regular season matches remaining in their push for the MLS NEXT Pro Playoffs<\/strong>, including two at home and one on the road.<\/p>\n

Dynamo 2 took the lead in the 12th minute when a corner delivery from midfielder Mattheo<\/strong> Dimareli<\/strong> resulted in an own goal after a clearance attempt by Colorado defender Billo Diop found the back of the net.<\/p>\n

Cruz was called into action in the sixth minute when the Brazilian reacted quickly to deny a right-footed shot from Sydney Wathuta.<\/p>\n

Cruz delivered another key save in the 21st minute, diving to his right to secure a low-driven shot from Sam Bassett.<\/p>\n

Forward Tom\u00e1s<\/strong> Romero<\/strong> had a chance on goal in the 38th minute after receiving a pass in the center of the box. He forced goalkeeper Adam Beaudry to make a diving save, with a shot towards the bottom left corner.<\/p>\n

Dimareli delivered another dangerous scoring opportunity in the 55th minute when the young midfielder dribbled past a few Colorado defenders into the box and fired a right-footed shot towards goal that found the hands of Beaudry.<\/p>\n

Cruz was called into action again in the 64th minute, making another crucial stop as he came off his line to deny Diop\u2019s strike in a one-on-one situation at the center of the box.<\/p>\n

Houston next host Tacoma Defiance on Wednesday, Sept. 17, at SaberCats Stadium, with kickoff scheduled for 7:00 p.m. CT. Fans can claim their free tickets to the match HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREELEY, Colo. (Sept. 14, 2025) \u2013 Houston Dynamo 2 earned their fourth clean sheet of the season with…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":228314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[19715,4345,19716,72213,45646,45648,358,79196,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-228313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-dynamo-dos","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-dynamo-2","11":"tag-isaac-mwakutuya","12":"tag-mattheo-dimareli","13":"tag-pedro-cruz","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tomas-romero","16":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115207467369074263","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228313","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=228313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}