ST. LOUIS, MO (MAY 9, 2026) –\u00a0St Louis CITY2\u00a0fell\u00a04-1 to Houston Dynamo 2 on Saturday afternoon at Energizer Park.\u00a0Patrick McDonald opened the scoring for CITY2 in 29th minute, off an assist from Zack Lillington. Houston found the equalizer just\u00a0nine minutes later from\u00a0Mattheo Dimareli.\u00a0In\u00a0the\u00a0second half, Dynamo 2 scored three times to earn\u00a0three points on the day.\u00a0St. Louis will hit the road to\u00a0Austin FC II next Sunday, May 17 at Parmer Field with kick off set for\u00a07:30 p.m. CT.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Patrick McDonald notched his second goal of the 2026 season\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zack Lillington picked up his first professional assist\u00a0<\/p>\n
St. Louis suffered their first loss of the 2026 season\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Patrick McDonald\u00a0(Zack Lillington), 29th minute \u2013\u00a0Patrick McDonald scored with left footed shot from the left side of the box to the bottom right corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Mattheo Dimareli (Arthur Sousa), 38th minute \u2013\u00a0Mattheo Dimareli scored with a left\u00a0footed\u00a0shot from the corner of the box to the top left corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Noah Betancourt (Diego Gonzalez), 62nd minute \u2013\u00a0Noah Betancourt scored with header from center of the box to the lower left zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0JJ Bell\u00a0(D\u2019Alessandro Herrera), 69th minute \u2013\u00a0JJ Bell\u00a0scored with a right footed shot from the center of the box to the bottom left corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Austin Brummett (Diego Gonzalez), 90th minute +1 \u2013\u00a0Austin Brummett scored with a right footed shot from the center of the box to the middle right zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Patrick McDonald (Zack Lillington), 29\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Mattheo Dimareli (Arthur Sousa), 38\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Noah Betancourt\u00a0(Diego Gonzalez), 62\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0JJ Bell\u00a0(D\u2019Alessandra Herrera), 59\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Austin Brummett (Diego Gonzalez), 90\u2019+1\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Jack Wagoner (caution), 34\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Zack Lillington (caution), 71\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0GK\u00a0Lucas McPartlin;\u00a0D\u00a0Stone Marion\u00a0(Andrew De Gannes, 63\u2019),\u00a0D\u00a0Zack Lillington\u00a0(Sidney Paris, 73\u2019),\u00a0D\u00a0Kyle Hiebert,\u00a0D\u00a0Tyson Pearce,\u00a0D\u00a0Riley Lynch\u00a0(Lorenzo Cornelius, 73\u2019);\u00a0M\u00a0Chris Pearson \u00a9\u00a0(Jemone\u00a0Barclay, 57\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Jack Wagoner (Yu Ota, 57\u2019);\u00a0M\u00a0Alex Jundt,\u00a0M\u00a0Patrick McDonald;\u00a0F\u00a0Palmer Ault\u00a0<\/p>\n
Substitutes Not Used:\u00a0GK\u00a0Nate Martinez,\u00a0GK\u00a0Colin Welsh,\u00a0D\u00a0Adeteye Gbadehan\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOTAL SHOTS:\u00a09; SHOTS ON GOAL:\u00a04; FOULS: 16; OFFSIDES:\u00a00; CORNER KICKS:\u00a09; SAVES:\u00a03\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0GK\u00a0Pedro Cruz\u00a0\u00a9;\u00a0D\u00a0Reese Miller\u00a0(D\u2019Alessandro Herrera, 60\u2019),\u00a0D\u00a0Isaac Mwakatuya,\u00a0D\u00a0Eiji Hata\u00a0(Micah Harris, 89\u2019),\u00a0D\u00a0Noah Betancourt;\u00a0M\u00a0Gustavo Dohmann,\u00a0M\u00a0Matthew Arana\u00a0(Diego Gonzalez, 60\u2019);\u00a0M\u00a0Samir Mohammad,\u00a0M\u00a0JJ\u00a0Bell,\u00a0M\u00a0Mattheo Dimareli;\u00a0F\u00a0Arthur Sousa\u00a0(Austin Brummett, 73\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Substitutes Not Used:\u00a0GK\u00a0Roman Kerimov,\u00a0M\u00a0Omar Bolanos,\u00a0F\u00a0Austin Brummett,\u00a0F\u00a0Alan Martins,\u00a0F\u00a0Mamadi Jiana,\u00a0F\u00a0Myles Gardner\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOTAL SHOTS:\u00a016; SHOTS ON GOAL:\u00a07; FOULS: 10; OFFSIDES: 1; CORNER KICKS:\u00a02; SAVES:\u00a02\u00a0<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Jorge Escobar\u00a0<\/p>\n
Assistant Referees:\u00a0Justen Lopez, Miklos Hendricks\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fourth Official:\u00a0Andrew Strasberg\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS, MO (MAY 9, 2026) –\u00a0St Louis CITY2\u00a0fell\u00a04-1 to Houston Dynamo 2 on Saturday afternoon at Energizer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[54355,1492,56,58,57,105170],"class_list":["post-286604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-city2","tag-featured","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-next-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286604","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=286604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}