{"id":746972,"date":"2026-04-23T05:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/746972\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T05:36:15","slug":"houston-dynamo-fc-earn-second-consecutive-shutout-victory-after-1-0-home-win-over-san-diego-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/746972\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo FC earn second consecutive shutout victory after 1-0 home win over San Diego FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HOUSTON (April 22, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC<\/strong>\u00a0earned their second consecutive shutout victory tonight after earning a 1-0 home victory over San Diego FC\u00a0<strong>Shell<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Energy<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Stadium<\/strong>, while holding the visiting team to one shot on target.<\/p>\n<p>Forward\u00a0<strong>Aliyu Ibrahim<\/strong>\u00a0broke the scoreless tie with his first goal of the season in the 35th\u00a0minute when midfielder\u00a0<strong>Ond\u0159ej Lingr<\/strong>\u00a0played a ball through to the Nigerian running into the right side of the box. Ibrahim then fired a powerful strike into the top left corner of the net to secure the score and Lingr\u2019s first MLS assist.<\/p>\n<p>The result also marked Houston\u2019s second clean sheet this season, while tonight\u2019s victory marked the third consecutive victory in all competitions, with the inclusion of Houston\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstondynamofc.com\/news\/houston-dynamo-fc-stop-the-locomotive-in-its-tracks-defeating-el-paso-4-1-to-reach-the-u-s-open-cup-round-of-16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">4-1 victory<\/a>\u00a0over El Paso Locomotive FC in the Round of 32 of the U.S. Open Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Houston played the final minutes of the match with 10 men after Lingr\u00a0was shown a red card by referee Rubiel Vazquez in the 97th\u00a0minute, while San Diego went down to 10 men in the 79th\u00a0minute when Amahl Pellegrino fouled defender\u00a0<strong>Felipe Andrade<\/strong>\u00a0with a high foot while fighting for the ball in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Houston\u2019s first shot on target came in the 11th\u00a0minute when attacker\u00a0<strong>Guilherme<\/strong>\u00a0found midfielder\u00a0<strong>MateuszBogusz<\/strong>\u00a0at the top of the box, who fired a right-footed shot that found the hands of goalkeeper Duran Ferree.<\/p>\n<p>The Dynamo had a dangerous chance in the 68th\u00a0minute after Bogusz started an attack from midfield, dribbling to the top of the box and finding Ibrahim inside the right side of the box for a shot that missed the near post by inches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lingr nearly gave Houston their second of the night in the 74th\u00a0minute when Bogusz played an overhead pass to Lingr, who dribbled past the visiting goalkeeper, cut to his right and firing a fight-footed shot that struck the left and right post.<\/p>\n<p>Midfielder\u00a0<strong>H\u00e9ctor<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Herrera<\/strong>\u00a0had a chance of his own in the last minute of second half stoppage time after almost finding the back of the net with a left-footed shot from near midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Houston next travels to the state capital to face Austin FC in a Texas Showdown on Saturday, April 25, at Q2 Stadium, with kickoff scheduled for 7:30 p.m. CT. Fans can watch the action live via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/austin-fc-vs-houston-dynamo-fc\/umc.cse.6nq3w7h3rtyf1ibqw5hfwg0ze?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000%2Ctvs.sbd.4000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (April 22, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC\u00a0earned their second consecutive shutout victory tonight after earning a 1-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":746973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,15755,15756,34679,15759,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-746972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-dynamo-fc","10":"tag-houston-dynamo-news","11":"tag-ibrahim-aliyu","12":"tag-ondrej-lingr","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116452405173473797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746972","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=746972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/746973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=746972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=746972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=746972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}