secure their tickets to the match via\u00a0Tixr<\/a>\u00a0for as low as $5.\u00a0<\/p>\nThe match\u00a0was\u00a0highlighted\u00a0by\u00a0three goal\u00a0contributions\u00a0from\u00a0midfielder\u00a0Ond\u0159ej\u00a0Lingr, who scored\u00a0his first\u00a0goal of the year, while\u00a0registering\u00a0two\u00a0assists.\u00a0Forwards\u00a0Ezequiel\u00a0Ponce\u00a0and\u00a0Nick\u00a0Markanich\u00a0also\u00a0recorded their first\u00a0goals of the year.<\/p>\n
Notably,\u00a0Markanich, defender\u00a0Agustin Resch\u00a0and defender\u00a0Sam Vines\u00a0each made their first Dynamo\u00a0starts\u00a0tonight, while forward\u00a0Aliyu Ibrahim\u00a0and goalkeeper\u00a0Jimmy Maurer\u00a0made their first\u00a0starts\u00a0of the year.<\/p>\n
The Dynamo\u00a0took the lead\u00a0early\u00a0in the match in\u00a0the\u00a0second minute\u00a0when\u00a0Lingr\u00a0fired a bicycle kick into the back of the net\u00a0after\u00a0Markanich\u00a0delivered\u00a0an accurate\u00a0ball from the right side of the box.\u00a0The play\u00a0marked\u00a0the American\u2019s\u00a0first assist of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Attacking midfielder\u00a0Mateusz\u00a0Bogusz\u00a0doubled Houston\u2019s lead\u00a022 seconds into the second half with a right-footed strike\u00a0inside the box\u00a0that\u00a0defected off\u00a0an El Paso defender\u00a0and\u00a0into the back of the net,\u00a0following\u00a0a through ball from\u00a0Lingr.\u00a0The play marked Bogusz\u2019s second goal of the year and\u00a0Lingr\u2019s\u00a0first assist of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Houston extended their\u00a0lead in the 58th\u00a0minute\u00a0when header from midfielder\u00a0H\u00e9ctor\u00a0Herrera\u00a0inside the box found\u00a0Markanich\u00a0for a left-footed volley that hit\u00a0the bottom left\u00a0corner for his first Dynamo goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
El Paso pulled one back in the 75th\u00a0minute when\u00a0former Dynamo player\u00a0Roberto Avila\u00a0found the bottom right corner from outside the box.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ponce\u00a0scored\u00a0Houston\u2019s\u00a0fourth and final goal of the night in the\u00a080th\u00a0minute\u00a0with\u00a0a header at the near post\u00a0after a\u00a0pinpoint cross from Bogusz.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
El Paso\u00a0managed\u00a0a shot on\u00a0target in the 19th\u00a0minute,\u00a0with\u00a0Gabriel Torres\u00a0firing a shot across goal that hit off the far post.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Locomotive went down to 10 men in the\u00a025th\u00a0minute\u00a0when\u00a0Kofi Twumasi\u00a0shoved\u00a0Lingr\u00a0to the ground while\u00a0the Czech international\u00a0was\u00a0running into the box with the ball at his feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Bogusz almost scored his second of the night in the 54th\u00a0minute with a long-range shot that sailed over the crossbar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Aliyu\u00a0found\u00a0Ponce\u00a0in the box in the 65th\u00a0minute for a header that found the hands of the visiting goalkeeper.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Houston returns to MLS play on Saturday, April 18, traveling\u202feast\u202ffor an inter-conference matchup versus\u202fOrlando City SC\u202fat\u202fInter&Co\u202fStadium. Fans can watch the match live via\u202fApple TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (April\u00a015, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC\u00a0defeated\u00a0USL Championship\u00a0side\u00a0El Paso\u00a0Locomotive FC\u00a04-1\u00a0at\u00a0Shell\u00a0Energy\u00a0Stadium\u00a0tonight\u00a0to advance to the\u00a0Round of\u00a016 of the 2026 Lamar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139,844,845],"class_list":["post-251959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-houston-dynamo-fc","tag-houston-dynamo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251959","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=251959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}