{"id":842517,"date":"2026-08-02T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842517\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T14:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:04:11","slug":"guilherme-santos-and-agustin-bouzat-score-for-houston-dynamo-shut-out-sporting-kc-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/842517\/","title":{"rendered":"Guilherme Santos and Agust\u00edn Bouzat score for Houston Dynamo, shut out Sporting KC 2-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Guilherme Santos and Agust\u00edn Bouzat both scored as the Houston Dynamo shut out Sporting KC 2-0 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Houston (9-6-2) now sits in fourth place in the Western Conference, two points up on Real Salt Lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Santos netted the first goal of the night in the 55th minute with an outside-the-box shot that found the back of the net on an expected goal of 3%. With the goal, he became the ninth player in MLS history to score or assist on at least 17 of his club\u2019s first 25 goals in a season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Bouzat sealed the win with a left-footed shot from the center of the box to help the Dynamo extend their unbeaten streak to five games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jonathan Bond made four saves for Houston to preserve the clean sheet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Houston: Hosts the New England Revolution on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Sporting KC: Has two weeks off before hosting the Colorado Rapids on Aug. 15.<\/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":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Guilherme Santos and Agust\u00edn Bouzat both scored as the Houston Dynamo shut out Sporting KC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-842517","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\/842517","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=842517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}