HOUSTON, TX (JULY 11, 2026) –\u00a0St Louis CITY2\u00a0fell 2-1\u00a0in a close match on the road at SaberCats Stadium. Houston scored the\u00a0opening goal 14 minutes into the first half and held a 1-0 lead heading into halftime.\u00a0Dynamo Dos extended their lead to 2-0 in the 69th\u00a0minute with a goal from substitute Arthur Sousa.\u00a0CITY2 cut Houston\u2019s lead in half with Lorenzo Cornelius scoring his first professional goal off an assist from Riley Lynch. St. Louis was unable to equalize the match after\u00a090 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CITY2 will return home to Energizer Park next weekend, facing\u00a0Portland Timbers2 on Saturday, July 18,\u00a0with\u00a0kickoff\u00a0set for 6:00 p.m. CT. Saturday\u2019s match\u00a0will kick\u00a0off a three-match homestand for CITY2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Lorenzo Cornelius scored his first\u00a0professional goal\u00a0<\/p>\n
Riley Lynch recorded his seventh assist of the season, moving into second place overall in MLS NEXT Pro\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zach Zengue made his CITY2 debut after joining St. Louis CITY SC on Friday\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU: Reese Miller,\u00a014th\u00a0minute \u2013\u00a0Reese Milelr scored with a right footed shot from the center of the box to the top right corner.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU: Arthur Sousa (Austin Brummett), 69th minute \u2013\u00a0Arthur Sousa scored with a right\u00a0footed\u00a0shot from the center of the box to the lower left zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL: Lorenzo Cornelius (Riley Lynch), 86th minute \u2013\u00a0Lorenzo Cornelius scored with a header from the center of the box to the upper left central zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Reese Miller,\u00a014\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Arthur Sousa (Austin Brummett), 69\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Lorenzo Cornelius (Riley Lynch), 86\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0D\u2019Alessandro Herrera\u00a0(caution),\u00a01\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Alan Martins (caution), 43\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Zack Lillington (caution), 47\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Trip Clancy (caution), 68\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Vinicius Silva (caution), 87\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0GK\u00a0Logan Erb;\u00a0D\u00a0Reese Miller\u00a0(Myles Gardner, 60\u2019),\u00a0D\u00a0Noah Betancourt,\u00a0D\u00a0Vinicius Silva,\u00a0D\u00a0D\u2019Alessandro Herrera;\u00a0M\u00a0Gustavo Dohmann,\u00a0M\u00a0Dylan Reyes\u00a0(Daniel Barrett, 68\u2019);\u00a0M\u00a0Jahmani Bell\u00a0(Jaizhino Perez, 79\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Samir Mohammad,\u00a0M\u00a0Alan Martins\u00a0(Arthur Sousa, 68\u2019);\u00a0F\u00a0Austin Brumett\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0(Mamadi Jiana, 79\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Substitutes Not Used:\u00a0GK\u00a0Roman Kerimov,\u00a0D\u00a0Brogan Fitzsimons,\u00a0M\u00a0Tristan Cottle,\u00a0F\u00a0Sebastiao Nzita\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOTAL SHOTS:\u00a011; SHOTS ON GOAL:\u00a05; FOULS:\u00a013; OFFSIDES: 3; CORNER KICKS:\u00a04; SAVES:\u00a02\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL: GK\u00a0Colin Welsh;\u00a0D\u00a0Chris Pearson \u00a9,\u00a0D\u00a0Zack Lillington\u00a0(Owen Jorgensen, 61\u2019),\u00a0D\u00a0Sidney Paris;\u00a0M\u00a0Stone Marion\u00a0(Lorenzo Cornelius, 46\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Trip Clancy\u00a0(Alex Jundt, 78\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Patrick McDonald,\u00a0M\u00a0Emiliano Chavez;\u00a0F\u00a0Jemone\u00a0Barclay\u00a0(Zach Zengue, 12\u2019),\u00a0F\u00a0Chidube Nwankwo\u00a0(Andrew De Gannes, 78\u2019),\u00a0F\u00a0Riley Lynch\u00a0<\/p>\n
Substitutes Not Used: GK\u00a0Nate Martinez,\u00a0M\u00a0Adeteye Gbadehan,\u00a0M\u00a0Samuel Goldstein,\u00a0F\u00a0Kane Kraus\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOTAL SHOTS:\u00a012; SHOTS ON GOAL:\u00a03; FOULS: 18; OFFSIDES:\u00a02; CORNER KICKS:\u00a04; SAVES: 3\u00a0<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Anthony Sobolevsky\u00a0<\/p>\n
Assistant Referees:\u00a0Diego Blas, Joseph Jeffers\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fourth Official:\u00a0Jordon Gray\u00a0<\/p>\n
Venue:\u00a0SaberCats Stadium\u00a0<\/p>\n
Weather:\u00a0Cloudy,\u00a086\u00a0degrees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON, TX (JULY 11, 2026) –\u00a0St Louis CITY2\u00a0fell 2-1\u00a0in a close match on the road at SaberCats Stadium.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[54355,1492,56,58,57,105170],"class_list":["post-370016","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\/370016","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=370016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}