{"id":440507,"date":"2026-08-22T15:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440507\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T15:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:22:24","slug":"match-preview-st-louis-city2-faces-houston-dynamo-2-on-sunday-night-at-energizer-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/440507\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Preview | St Louis CITY2 Faces Houston Dynamo 2 on Sunday Night at Energizer Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St\u00a0Louis CITY2 hosts Houston Dynamo 2 on Sunday, August 23, with kickoff set for 6:00\u00a0p.m. CT at Energizer Park. The match will be streamed on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlsnextpro.com\/competitions\/mls-next-pro\/2026\/matches\/stlvshou-08-23-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MLSNEXTPro.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0OneFootball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CITY2 recorded a 2-0 shutout victory over San Jose Earthquakes II last Sunday, earning the club\u2019s first-ever win in San Jose. Colin Welsh recorded his ninth career MLS NEXT Pro clean sheet and the club\u2019s eighth of the season, while Nighte Pickering scored both goals for St. Louis. The brace marked the second of Pickering\u2019s career and his first with CITY2, while also giving him his first goals for the club since joining in July.\u00a0Additionally, Andrew De Gannes earned his second assist\u00a0of\u00a0the season.\u00a0The road victory kept St. Louis in fifth place in the Western Conference with 38 points.\u00a0CITY2 extended their unbeaten streak to four matches. Three of those four matches have featured clean sheets, bringing the club\u2019s total to eight.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s match will be the third meeting between the clubs this season. St. Louis is 5-2-5 against Houston in regular-season meetings. The most recent matchup took place at SaberCats Stadium on July 11, when Houston earned a\u00a0narrow\u00a02-1 victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Houston Dynamo 2 sits third\u00a0place\u00a0in the Western Conference with 46 points and a 13-4-5 record. Dynamo 2 is 5-4-2 on the road this season. Houston faced San Jose Earthquakes II in a midweek matchup Wednesday, playing to a 1-1 draw before falling 5-3 in a penalty shootout. Forward Austin Brummett leads the team with nine goals this season. Forward D\u2019Alessandro Herrera, forward Arthur Sousa, midfielder Dohmann, defender Reese\u00a0Miller\u00a0and defender Isaac Mwakutuya have recorded three assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St\u00a0Louis CITY2 hosts Houston Dynamo 2 on Sunday, August 23, with kickoff set for 6:00\u00a0p.m. CT at Energizer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[136235,93,171785,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-440507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-city2","tag-featured","tag-next-pro","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}