{"id":673270,"date":"2026-03-22T07:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/673270\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T07:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:27:16","slug":"fc-dallas-hero-petar-musa-wins-an-all-timer-of-a-texas-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/673270\/","title":{"rendered":"FC Dallas hero: Petar Musa wins an all-timer of a Texas Derby"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Croatian international striker came off the bench to decide Saturday’s thrilling Texas Derby, scoring an 86th-minute winner to beat 10-man\u00a0Houston Dynamo FC<\/a>, 4-3<\/a>, at Toyota Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Musa’s heroics came a week after he scored a hat trick to salvage a late 3-3 come-from-behind draw<\/a> at home against San Diego FC<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMusa comes into the game and does what Musa does, gives us a huge lift and goals,\u201d said Dallas manager Eric Quill.<\/p>\n

\n Legendary Derby<\/p>\n

Saturday’s memorable result will go down in Texas Derby lore and the record books. The 4-3 final scoreline equalled the highest-scoring match between both sides, which came in the first-ever derby back in May 2006.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dallas jumped ahead early on a Logan Farrington<\/a> brace, but Houston weren’t fazed. In fact, the Dynamo flipped the script entirely with three goals in four minutes from Guilherme<\/a>,\u00a0Erik Sviatchenko<\/a> and Lawrence Ennali<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dallas responded by bringing on Musa after the halftime break. The 28-year-old caused a\u00a0Duane Holmes<\/a> own goal in the 54th minute and, after Sviatchenko was shown his second yellow card, struck for the late game-winner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s special. He and Logan together are a lethal tandem,” said Quill. “The other guys behind them are warriors, man.”<\/p>\n

\n Rising World Cup stock<\/p>\n

Musa heads into the March international window with Croatia in incredible form. With 6g\/0a in five appearances this season, including four goals in his last two games, he’s making his push to represent his country at this summer’s 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very excited. It\u2019s something special playing for your national team and also representing FC Dallas. I\u2019m very proud and happy,\u201d said Musa.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cToday it was only one purpose: to win the derby against Houston. Now, it\u2019s focus on the national team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Croatian international striker came off the bench to decide Saturday’s thrilling Texas Derby, scoring an 86th-minute winner…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":673271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,284008,15519,44504,78398,37638,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-673270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-dalvshou-03-21-2026","tag-fc-dallas","tag-match-reaction","tag-petar-musa","tag-sendtonews","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\/116271647986119567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673270","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=673270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}