COMMERCE CITY, Colo.\u00a0(April\u00a011, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC fell 6-2 on the road to the Colorado Rapids earlier this evening. Attacker\u00a0Guilherme finished the night with two goal contributions (one goal and one assist) and now ranks third in Major League Soccer with nine total goal contributions.<\/p>\n
Colorado took the lead in the fifth minute when Kosi Thompson found the back of the net following a cross into the box from Dante Sealy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Josh Atencio doubled the Rapids\u2019 lead in the 17th minute with a long range shot that found the bottom left corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colorado scored their third of the match in the 53rd minute when Thompson found the bottom right corner to complete his brace.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Foward Lawrence Ennali pulled one back for Houston in the 69th minute after dribbling inside the box and cutting to his right for a powerful strike that found the top right corner for his second goal of the season. Guilherme recorded his fourth assist of the season on the play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rafael Navarro scored Colorado\u2019s fourth\u00a0goal\u00a0of the night in the 73rd\u00a0minute\u00a0with a right-footed shot\u00a0inside the box following a pass from\u00a0Georgi Minoungou.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colorado added to their lead in second half stoppage time when a cross from Noah Cobb deflected off defender Felipe Andrade and into the back of the net.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, Houston pulled one back again two minutes later after Guilherme found the inside of the near post from outside the box. The goal marked the 100th of his career and his fifth of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colorado scored their final goal of the night in the fifth minute of second half stoppage time after Navarro converted a penalty kick after midfielder\u00a0H\u00e9ctor\u00a0Herrera\u00a0was\u00a0deemed\u00a0to\u00a0have\u00a0foul\u00a0a\u00a0Colorado\u00a0player\u00a0inside\u00a0the\u00a0box.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Houston\u2019s first dangerous chance came in the second minute of the match when a long throw in from midfielder Duane\u00a0Holmes was redirected into the center of the box by Andrade, setting up a right footed volley from attacking midfielder\u00a0Mateusz\u00a0Bogusz that carried just over the crossbar.<\/p>\n
Guilherme\u00a0put a shot\u00a0on target in the\u00a019th\u00a0minute\u00a0with a right-footed strike that\u00a0forced a\u00a0diving save from Zack Steffen.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper\u00a0Jonathan\u00a0Bond\u00a0was called into action\u00a0in the\u00a032nd\u00a0minute, diving to\u00a0his right\u00a0to deny\u00a0a\u00a0shot from\u00a0Darren\u00a0Yapi.\u00a0The shot stopper\u00a0finished\u00a0the night with\u00a0three\u00a0saves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Holmes almost put the Dynamo on the board in the 36th minute when Guilherme found the midfielder running towards the box. Holmes took a touch and fired a shot that forced another diving save from Steffen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Holmes had another shot on target in the 44th minute when a blocked shot landed in front of the 31-year-old for a right-footed volley that hit the near post. Shortly afterwards, Guilherme had a powerful shot of his own that was saved by Steffen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Midfielder\u00a0Agust\u00edn\u00a0Bouzat took his chances from deep in the 46th minute with a powerful strike that found the hands of the Colorado goalkeeper.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Guilherme\u00a0had his\u00a0third\u00a0shot on\u00a0goal in the\u00a066th\u00a0minute\u00a0after\u00a0quickly\u00a0cutting\u00a0to his right\u00a0and\u00a0firing a\u00a0shot\u00a0towards the hands of Steffen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Dynamo return to\u00a0Shell\u00a0Energy\u00a0Stadium\u00a0on Wednesday, April 15, for their opening 2026 U.S. Open Cup match versus USL Championship side El Paso Locomotive FC. Fans can secure\u00a0Round of\u00a032\u00a0tickets\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0or watch the\u00a0match live via\u00a0Paramount+<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COMMERCE CITY, Colo.\u00a0(April\u00a011, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC fell 6-2 on the road to the Colorado Rapids earlier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-245944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-houston-headlines","10":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245944","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=245944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}