signed<\/a>\u00a0Vitor\u00a0Andr\u00e9\u00a0and Dynamo Academy player\u00a0Tristan\u00a0Cottle\u00a0make their professional debuts after coming as substitutes\u00a0in the second\u00a0half.<\/p>\nGoalkeeper Logan\u00a0Erb\u00a0contributed three\u00a0saves\u00a0to tonight’s clean sheet, with his first\u00a0coming\u00a0in\u00a0first half stoppage time, where\u00a0the\u00a0shot\u00a0stopper dove high to his right to deny a freekick that was heading\u00a0towards the upper right corner.\u00a0The shutout marked the team’s eighth of the year and Erb’s\u00a0second of the season.<\/p>\n
Dynamo 2 took the lead in the 16th\u00a0minute\u00a0when attacker\u00a0Samir\u00a0Mohammad\u00a0set up\u00a0Miller\u00a0for his fourth goal of the\u00a0year. Mohammad\u00a0delivered a cross from the right flank\u00a0thatfound the American defender at the far post, where he headed the ball\u00a0past the hands of\u00a0Robert Alphi and into the back of the net. The\u00a0assist\u00a0marked Mohammad\u2019s second of the season.<\/p>\n
Dimareli doubled Dos\u2019 lead in the 19th\u00a0minute with a left-footed blast\u00a0from\u00a0well\u00a0outside the box\u00a0that caught the Real Monarchs goalkeeper off\u00a0guard.\u00a0The youngster first received a pass from midfielder\u00a0D’Alessandro\u00a0Herrera\u00a0before taking aim\u00a0at goal and firing a stunner from\u00a025 yards\u00a0into the near post. The goal marked Dimareli\u2019s\u00a0fourth of the season and Herrera\u2019s third assist of the year.<\/p>\n
Bell\u00a0scored Houston’s third and final goal of the night in the 83rd\u00a0minute\u00a0after\u00a0defender\u00a0Vinicius\u00a0Silva\u00a0dribbled into the box and\u00a0split\u00a0two Real Monarchs\u2019 defenders\u00a0before\u00a0threading a\u00a0ball\u00a0between\u00a0Alphi\u00a0and\u00a0another\u00a0Real Monarchs\u2019 defender\u00a0into\u00a0Bell\u2019s path, who finished the play for his fifth goal of the season.\u00a0The play marked Silva\u2019s third assist of the year.<\/p>\n
Real Monarchs went down to 10 men in the fifth minute of the match when Dylan Kropp fouled forward\u00a0Arthur\u00a0Sousa\u00a0after denying a\u00a0goal-scoring opportunity at the top of the box,\u00a0with the Brazilian breaking towards goal.<\/p>\n
Herrera had Houston’s first shot on target in the sixth minute with a direct free kick near the edge of the box that forced a diving save from Alphin at the far post.<\/p>\n
Miller fired a right-footed shot from inside the box in the 47th\u00a0minute that forced Alphin to get low\u00a0for the stop.<\/p>\n
Real Monarchs went down another men in the 74th\u00a0minute when Nicholas Silva\u00a0was sent off for fouling\u00a0defender\u00a0Eiji\u00a0Hata\u00a0in Houston\u2019s box.<\/p>\n
Houston next host Ventura County FC on Friday, Aug. 14, at SaberCats Stadium, with kickoff scheduled for 6:00 p.m. CT. Fans can secure their free tickets for the home match HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (Aug.\u00a08, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0earned\u00a0three points\u00a0earlier this evening\u00a0at\u00a0SaberCats\u00a0Stadium,\u00a0defeating Real Monarchs\u00a03-0\u00a0in a\u00a0match\u00a0that\u00a0concludedafter a weather delay.\u00a0Defender\u00a0Reese\u00a0Miller, attacker\u00a0Mattheo\u00a0Dimareli\u00a0and forward\u00a0Jahmani\u00a0“JJ”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6963,56,6964,58,57],"class_list":["post-401765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-dynamo-dos","tag-houston","tag-houston-dynamo-2","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401765","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=401765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}