{"id":266599,"date":"2026-04-26T03:28:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266599\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:28:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:28:05","slug":"jayden-nelson-and-myrto-uzuni-convert-in-first-half-as-austin-fc-blanks-houston-dynamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266599\/","title":{"rendered":"Jayden Nelson and Myrto Uzuni convert in first half as Austin FC blanks Houston Dynamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jayden Nelson scored in the 13th minute, and Myrto Uzuni added a goal in first-half stoppage time as Austin FC shut out the Houston Dynamo 2-0 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Austin (2-4-4) took the lead early when Nelson finished from the left side of the box off an assist from Facundo Torres. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Austin doubled its advantage in the second minute of first-half stoppage time when Uzuni scored from outside the box. The strike, assisted by Joseph Rosales, found the bottom-left corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brad Stuver had five saves for Austin to secure the shutout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jonathan Bond had three saves for Houston (4-5-0).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Houston pushed for a response in the second half but struggled to generate quality chances, with several attempts from Ezequiel Ponce missing the target.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Houston entered the match on the back of consecutive shutout victories, including a 1-0 win over San Diego on Wednesday, but struggled to convert chances despite generating pressure down the stretch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Jayden Nelson scored in the 13th minute, and Myrto Uzuni added a goal in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,154],"class_list":["post-266599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266599","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=266599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}