4-0 victory<\/a>\u00a0over Tacoma Defiance at\u00a0SaberCats\u00a0Stadium\u00a0Sunday night, highlighted by a first career\u00a0MLS NEXT Pro\u00a0brace from Dimareli. Notably, the result marked Houston\u2019s second clean sheet of the season after holding the visitors to just one shot on target from eight total attempts. Additionally, Tacoma failed to register a shot in the first half, while Dynamo 2 recorded eight.<\/p>\nHouston took the lead in the 41st\u00a0minute following a combination play between forward\u00a0Austin\u00a0Brummett, forward\u00a0Nick\u00a0Markanich\u00a0and Dimareli. The sequence began with Markanich controlling the ball on the right flank and dribbling towards the edge of the box before playing a quick one-two with Brummett. Markanich then found Dimareli inside the box, who finished with his left foot.<\/p>\n
Dimareli completed his brace in first-half stoppage time when Markanich again found the 16-year-old inside the box for a close-range finish. The pass also marked Markanich\u2019s second assist of the night.<\/p>\n
Dos tripled their lead in the 77th\u00a0minute when midfielder\u00a0Diego\u00a0Gonzalez\u00a0found defender\u00a0Gavin\u00a0Wolff\u00a0inside the box for a header. Brummett then scored Houston\u2019s final goal of the night in the 82nd\u00a0minute, finishing with a first-time strike following a pass from defender\u00a0Vinicius Rodrigues da Silva.<\/p>\n
Dynamo 2 currently sit second in the Western Conference standings with six points and a 2-0-0 (WLD) record. The team is tied for third in the league for most goals scored (six) this season.<\/p>\n
Dos next host Portland Timbers2 on Sunday, March 15, with kickoff scheduled for 6:00 p.m. CT at SaberCats Stadium. Fans can claim free tickets to every Dynamo Dos home match via\u00a0Tixr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (March 9, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0and U.S. Youth National Team attacker\u00a0Mattheo\u00a0Dimareliwas named the\u00a0MLS NEXT Rising Star\u00a0of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6963,56,6964,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-197096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-dynamo-dos","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-dynamo-2","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}