{"id":646168,"date":"2026-05-04T01:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646168\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T01:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:07:08","slug":"ramirez-uzuni-score-second-half-goals-as-austin-fc-rallies-past-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/646168\/","title":{"rendered":"Ram\u00edrez, Uzuni score second-half goals as Austin FC rallies past St. Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Christian Ram\u00edrez and Myrto Uzuni scored second-half goals, and Austin FC beat St. Louis CITY SC 2-0 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ram\u00edrez broke through in the 69th minute, heading in a set-piece delivery from the center of the box to give Austin a 1-0 lead. Uzuni added an insurance goal in the 81st minute, finishing from the center of the box off an assist from Ram\u00edrez for his fourth goal of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Austin created several early chances but was unable to convert before halftime, with multiple attempts inside the box denied or off target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Austin finished with a 15-12 edge in shots and a 2.2-1.9 advantage in expected goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brad Stuver made four saves to secure the shutout, while Austin\u2019s defense limited open looks late as St. Louis pushed for a response.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brandon Vazquez made his return to the pitch for Austin, appearing for the first time since July 8, 2025, when he suffered a torn ACL.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Christian Ram\u00edrez and Myrto Uzuni scored second-half goals, and Austin FC beat St. Louis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-646168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}