{"id":358945,"date":"2026-07-02T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358945\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:39:08","slug":"match-preview-st-louis-city2-heads-down-south-to-face-north-texas-sc-on-the-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/358945\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Preview | St Louis CITY2 Heads Down South to Face North Texas SC on the Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Louis CITY2\u00a0travels down south to North Texas SC\u00a0at\u00a0brand new\u00a0Mansfield Stadium\u00a0on Saturday, July 4\u00a0with kickoff set for\u00a07:45\u00a0p.m. CT and the match will be streamed on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlsnextpro.com\/competitions\/mls-next-pro\/2026\/matches\/ntxvsstl-07-04-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mlsnextpro.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0OneFootball.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis fell\u00a02-0 to Austin FC II last Sunday at Energizer Park, suffering their second loss at home this season. Jorge Alastuey and Vlad Danciutiu scored for ATX II in the 34th and 69th minute.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>CITY2\u00a0took\u00a0on North Texas one month ago at Energizer Park, where the team earned a 2-0 shutout win.\u00a0An own goal and Mykhi\u00a0Joyner\u2019s fourth strike of the season propelled\u00a0CITY2 to their seventh win of the season. The clean sheet was the fifth of the season for the team and sixth of Colin\u00a0Welsh\u2019s career. Palmer Ault picked up his fifth assist of the season during the match. Kane Kraus and Blake Wilson both made their professional debuts, entering the match as substitutes in the second half.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis has the upper hand in the regular\u00a0season\u00a0series against NTX with a\u00a06-3-2\u00a0record.\u00a0CITY2 has not lost away at North Texas since November 2024\u00a0and are undefeated in the regular season against North Texas since 2025.\u00a0In\u00a0those six wins, CITY2 has scored 16 goals, averaging 2.6 goals per match. The squad faces North\u00a0Texas for\u00a0one final time\u00a0this year on August 28 at Energizer Park.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>North Texas SC sits in 11th place in the Western Conference with a 4-5-5 record, scoring 23 goals and conceding 20.\u00a0NTX has not played a match since June 10, as they tied Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2,\u00a01-1 and eventually fell in the penalty shootout 4-3.\u00a0Forward Nathaniel James and midfielder Edouard Nys have each scored a team-leading eight goals this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Louis CITY2\u00a0travels down south to North Texas SC\u00a0at\u00a0brand new\u00a0Mansfield Stadium\u00a0on Saturday, July 4\u00a0with kickoff set for\u00a07:45\u00a0p.m. CT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54355,1492,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-358945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-city2","tag-featured","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358945","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=358945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}