{"id":959926,"date":"2026-07-26T07:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/959926\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T07:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T07:11:13","slug":"houston-dynamo-fc-secure-a-3-0-shutout-victory-versus-austin-fc-on-h-town-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/959926\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo FC secure a 3-0 shutout victory versus Austin FC on H-Town Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (July\u00a025, 2026) \u2013 <strong>Houston Dynamo FC<\/strong> earned a 3-1 shutout victory versus in-state rivals Austin FC in front of a sold-out crowd at\u00a0<strong>Shell\u00a0Energy\u00a0Stadium<\/strong> tonight\u00a0after\u00a0a third-career MLS brace from attacker\u00a0<strong>Mateusz\u00a0Bogusz<\/strong>\u00a0and two goal contributions (one goal and one assist) from attacker\u00a0<strong>Guilherme<\/strong>.\u00a0Houston now holds\u00a0a strong 6-2-1 (WLD) regular season home record this year.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper <strong>Jonathan\u00a0Bond<\/strong> contributed five saves tonight, helping the Dynamo secure their\u00a0fifth clean sheet of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Guilherme&#8217;s performance marked the fifth time this season that he has scored and assisted in the same match. Tonight also saw Mexican legend and midfielder <strong>H\u00e9ctor Herrera&#8217;s<\/strong> make his 100th appearance for the Dynamo in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Houston got the scoring started early, as Bogusz finished a great transition moment, receiving a diagonal ball from forward\u00a0<strong>Ezequiel\u00a0Ponce<\/strong>\u00a0inside the box and\u00a0slotting past Austin goalkeeper Brad Stuver in the 12th\u00a0minute.<\/p>\n<p>Bogusz then earned his third-career MLS brace and first brace as a member of the Dynamo in the 29th\u00a0minute, scoring in a very different way.\u00a0Guilherme played a long ball over the top, and Bogusz received it, right-footing a first-time low ball past Stuver for a two-goal lead just half an hour into the match.<\/p>\n<p>Just three minutes later, the lead grew to three, as Guilherme got on the scoreboard, receiving a long ball from midfielder Agust\u00edn Bouzat almost immediately after Austin restarted the match following Houston&#8217;s second goal. Guilherme took two touches outside the box and dribbled in toward Stuver, slotting low for a three-goal lead in the 32nd\u00a0minute.<\/p>\n<p>Ponce nearly added a tally of his own in the 15th\u00a0minute, as a terrific cross-box chip from Herrera found\u00a0the Argentinean striker\u00a0with space near the back post, but his header went just wide of frame, and the advantage remained just one.<\/p>\n<p>A Bogusz&#8217;s hat trick came close in the 51st\u00a0minute when the Polish attacker nearly found the inside of the far post with a curling shot from outside the box.<\/p>\n<p>Houston next travel to face Sporting Kansas City on Saturday, Aug. 1, at Sporting Park, with kickoff set for 7:30 p.m. CT. Fan can follow the action live via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/sporting-kansas-city-vs-houston-dynamo-fc\/umc.cse.636tz551e1h5katnp5o6p4pjr?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000%2Ctvs.sbd.4000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLS on Apple TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (July\u00a025, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC earned a 3-1 shutout victory versus in-state rivals Austin FC in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":959927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[261124,4345,15755,15756,261126,358,3187],"class_list":["post-959926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-guilherme","tag-houston","tag-houston-dynamo-fc","tag-houston-dynamo-news","tag-mateusz-bogusz","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116985035891513180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959926","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=959926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/959927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}