{"id":253097,"date":"2026-04-16T19:58:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253097\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T19:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T19:58:33","slug":"houston-dynamo-cruises-as-early-red-card-dooms-el-paso-locomotive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/253097\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo cruises as early red card dooms El Paso Locomotive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/houston-dynamo-el-paso-2026-usoc-r3-1-big.jpg\" alt=\"Ond\u0159ej Lingr of the Houston Dynamo celebrates after scoring a goal against the El Paso Locomotive in the Third Round of the 2026 US Open Cup. Photo: Houston Dynamo FC\" class=\"wp-image-45608\"  \/>Ond\u0159ej Lingr of the Houston Dynamo celebrates after scoring a goal against the El Paso Locomotive in the Third Round of the 2026 US Open Cup. Photo: Houston Dynamo FC<\/p>\n<p>The Houston Dynamo advanced to the Round of 16 in the 2026 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup defeating the El Paso Locomotive 4-1 at Shell Energy Stadium on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Houston\u2019s scoring surge began in the second minute of play, Defender Nicholas Markanich delivered a ball to the edge where Odrej Lingr delivered soccer\u2019s most beautiful play; the bicycle. Lingr finished the night with a goal and two assists in just his first start of the season and first goal since July 29, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/join-our-patreon-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41554 size-full\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>El Paso would go down a man off a straight red shown to Kofi Twumasi after he pushed Lingr to ground just outside the eighteen in the 25th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the man advantage, Houston was unable to mount any sustainable offense against El Paso causing head coach Ben Olsen to spur his team in the halftime locker room.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/houston-dynamo-shirt-2020-mockup-300x300.png\" alt=\"Houston Dynamo We Want The Cup shirt US Open Cup\" class=\"wp-image-38096\"  \/>Support TheCup.us and its coverage of the US Open Cup by purchasing a \u201cWe Want The Cup\u201d shirt in your team\u2019s colors. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.thecup.us\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">THECUP.US SHOP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI thought the first half was really sloppy. I wasn\u2019t happy at halftime. And the way we went about being up a man, I thought we were rushing the game. It wasn\u2019t collective enough,\u201d said Olsen.<\/p>\n<p>Right out of the locker room, Dynamo halftime substitute Mateusz Bogusz doubled the Houston advantage in the 46th minute, Bogusz\u2019 right footed strike caromed off an El Paso defender before rippling the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>The lead would grow to a 3-0 advantage behind Markanich\u2019s first goal of the season before El Paso pulled one back. Former Houston Dynamo forward Beto Avila slotted one home inside the bottom right corner in the 75th minute to put El Paso on the board.<\/p>\n<p>The scoring would close in the 80th minute on an Ezequiel Ponce header off a perfect service to the near post from Lingr.<\/p>\n<p>Houston\u2019s win followed their worst loss of the season in a 6-2 debacle at Colorado. Olsen told his team prior to the match to \u201cleave that behind.\u201d The Dynamo now advance to the Round of 16 hosting USL Championship side Louisville City FC on April 28 or 29, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ond\u0159ej Lingr of the Houston Dynamo celebrates after scoring a goal against the El Paso Locomotive in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-253097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253097","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=253097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}