{"id":278477,"date":"2026-05-04T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278477\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:37:07","slug":"forward-lawrence-ennali-named-to-mlssoccer-com-team-of-the-matchday-after-scoring-a-match-winning-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278477\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward Lawrence Ennali named to MLSSoccer.com Team of the Matchday after scoring a match-winning goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON (May 4, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC\u00a0forward\u00a0Lawrence\u00a0Ennali\u00a0was named to the\u00a0MLSSoccer.com Team of the Matchday\u00a0for Matchday 11, the league announced today. The honor marks the German\u2019s first of the season and the team\u2019s sixth this season.<\/p>\n<p>The Dynamo earned a 1-0 home victory over the Colorado Rapids on Saturday night, as Ennali\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DX3B_B8N5Ic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">screamer from distance<\/a>\u00a0in the 72nd\u00a0minute was the difference maker, marking Houston\u2019s fifth win in their last six matches in all competitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ennali broke the deadlock in the 72nd\u00a0minute with a spectacular long-range shot. The forward brought the ball down outside the box after a Colorado clearance and put up a right-footed shot from 30-yards out for his third goal of the season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, goalkeeper\u00a0Jonathan\u00a0Bond\u00a0made two key saves on Saturday, earning his third clean sheet of the season. Defensively, Houston held the Rapids to just two shots on goal in the match, despite Colorado having scored the third-most goals in MLS to this point in the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Dynamo continue MLS play with a Sunday Night Soccer matchup versus LAFC on May 10, with kickoff scheduled for 8:00 p.m. CT at BMO Stadium. Fans can watch the action live via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/us\/sporting-event\/austin-fc-vs-houston-dynamo-fc\/umc.cse.6nq3w7h3rtyf1ibqw5hfwg0ze?ctx_brand=tvs.sbd.7000%2Ctvs.sbd.4000\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>              <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (May 4, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC\u00a0forward\u00a0Lawrence\u00a0Ennali\u00a0was named to the\u00a0MLSSoccer.com Team of the Matchday\u00a0for Matchday 11, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,844,845,58,57,13793],"class_list":["post-278477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-dynamo-fc","tag-houston-dynamo-news","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-lawrence-ennali"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278477","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=278477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}