KANSAS CITY, Kan.\u00a0(Aug.\u00a01, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC\u00a0earned their second consecutive\u00a0shutout victory after defeating Sporting Kansas City 2-0 on the road\u00a0behind\u00a0attacker\u00a0Guilherme’s\u00a010th\u00a0goal of the season and midfielder\u00a0Agust\u00edn\u00a0Bouzat\u00a0first goal of the year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper\u00a0Jonathan\u00a0Bond\u00a0contributed four saves\u00a0in tonight’s match, helping Houston secure their sixth clean sheet of the season.\u00a0Additionally, the Dynamo are now unbeaten in their last five MLS matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Dynamo took the lead in the 55th\u00a0minute\u00a0when\u00a0Guilherme, who\u00a0participated\u00a0in\u00a0this\u00a0year\u2019s MLS All-Star game,\u00a0fired a\u00a0low,\u00a0long-range shot\u00a0at the top of the box\u00a0that skipped under the\u00a0Sporting goalkeeper Stefan Cleveland and into the back of the net.\u00a0Midfielder\u00a0Jack\u00a0McGlynn\u00a0assisted\u00a0on the play, notching his fifth assist of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Notably, Guilherme has scored five goals in the last eight MLS\u00a0matches, including a goal in\u00a0back-to-back games, following his versus Austin FC on July 25.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Houston\u00a0extended their lead in the 71st\u00a0minute after capitalizing on a Kansas City error, with midfielder\u00a0Agust\u00edn\u00a0Bouzat\u00a0netting\u00a0his left-footed strike with ease.\u00a0Calvin Harris\u00a0was forced into giving the ball away by Houston\u2019s high press, allowing the Argentinean\u00a0to intercept\u00a0the\u00a0misplaced\u00a0pass inside the box before\u00a0firing\u00a0his shot\u00a0into the back of the net.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The first big chance of the match came for Houston\u00a0in the 25th\u00a0minute, as\u00a0forward\u00a0Lawrence Ennali\u00a0dribbled into the box along the right side\u00a0and cut back behind two defenders, and finding the foot of\u00a0midfielder\u00a0H\u00e9ctor Herrera, whose low\u00a0shot beat\u00a0Cleveland, but was cleared off the line by Jake Davis to keep the score level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The first half was a hotly contested one, with the two teams playing a very physical style \u2013\u00a0combining for\u00a015\u00a0fouls in the first half alone.\u00a0Just before halftime, that physicality boiled over, as SKC’s Lasse Berg Johnson went into a hard tackle onto the plant leg of Dynamo captain\u00a0and midfielder\u00a0Artur. Referee\u00a0Sergii\u00a0Boiko allowed the play to continue as Houston had the\u00a0advantage, but\u00a0eventually brought the play back\u00a0and brandished a second yellow for Johnson, reducing Kansas City to\u00a010\u00a0men with an entire half yet to be played.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Houston\u00a0came\u00a0out of the\u00a0halftime\u00a0break\u00a0hot, creating four attacking\u00a0opportunities\u00a0in the\u00a0first five minutes of the\u00a0second\u00a0half, including a long-range from\u00a0Artur\u00a0in the 49th\u00a0minute\u00a0that\u00a0forced a diving save from Cleveland.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Houston\u00a0continue\u00a0their two-match road trip at\u00a0Eastern Conference\u00a0opponent\u00a0the New England Revolution on Saturday, Aug. 8, with kickoff scheduled for 3:30 p.m. CT. Fans can follow the action live via\u00a0MLS on Apple TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Kan.\u00a0(Aug.\u00a01, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo FC\u00a0earned their second consecutive\u00a0shutout victory after defeating Sporting Kansas City 2-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[70682,70212,56,844,845,58,57,70214],"class_list":["post-395232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-agustin-bouzat","tag-guilherme","tag-houston","tag-houston-dynamo-fc","tag-houston-dynamo-news","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-jonathan-bond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395232","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=395232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}