The Houston Dynamo and Chicago Fire both had a three-point victory circled on their game plan; however, an afternoon of sluggish offense at Robertson Stadium left each team stuck in the mud in the Eastern Conference playoff race. Although both squads came into Saturday’s match undefeated in their last four regular season games, neither was able pull the trigger on its offensive weaponry to deliver a blow that would break the 1-1 impasse reached just prior to halftime. Saturday’s match was merely
U.S. Men’s National Team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann has named a squad of 22 players to prepare for the upcoming friendlies against Honduras and Ecuador. The U.S. first hosts Honduras on Oct. 8 at Sun Life Stadium in Miami. Kickoff is set for 6 p.m. ET, and the match will be broadcast live on Fox Soccer and Univision. Three days later, the U.S. makes its first appearance at Red Bull Arena when they welcome Ecuador to Harrison, N.J. Coverage begins at 7
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The Houston Dynamo had yet to win on the road in the 2011 season, so when the team trekked to Dallas to play in the most road-unfriendly locale of them all, Geoff Cameron’s last minute goal to give Houston a 1-0 victory could be described as nothing short of “magical”. Call it luck, because by many standards it was, but the Dynamo’s victory gave the team the right to reclaim El Capitan, the Civil War-era howitzer emblematic of the Texas Derby
If all’s well that ends well then Seattle Sounders FC might be feeling a bit down after their 3-0 win over D.C. United. Mauro Rosales went down late with an apparent knee injury. An MRI Monday confirmed a small tear in his MCL that could keep him out 2-4 weeks. Rosales was involved in every goal the Sounders scored this evening, making his injury especially disheartening. The MVP of the Sounders (and possible MLS MVP candidate) created the first chance for
The over 18,000 fans in attendance at Robertson Stadium were nearly lulled to sleep in an otherwise uneventful evening with the Dynamo hosting the struggling San Jose Earthquakes, until rookie Will Bruin burst through to bury a late goal that sealed Houston’s Eastern Conference leading ninth home victory of the season. The 1-1 score line sat for much of the second half as neither team could muster much magic in its final third of the field. When the game appeared to
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For 90+ minutes, the road weary Houston Dynamo battled and braved first-place Columbus at the Crew’s home confines, but two swift penalty kicks were all it took to erase the Dynamo’s enduring effort as the team was forced to settle for a 2-2 draw. Indeed, the outlook appeared too good to be true for a Dynamo squad fresh off a 3-0 thwacking against Sporting KC and still winless as visitors in the 2011 season. Columbus’s Emmanuel Ekpo was sent off in
The Houston Dynamo sped off for Kansas City looking to pluck three points from its match at LIVESTRONG Sporting Park. Instead, the team spluttered away from the stadium picking thorns out of its side, as Sporting KC stuck three goals to the Dynamo in an exhausting 3-0 defeat. Perhaps Houston needed to prepare better for its trip. After all, Sporting KC has had a snug grip on its home points this season, having only fallen twice in 14 home games. Couple this with the