Myrto Uzuni scored a hat trick and Austin FC recorded a convincing win over a Liga MX side in Leagues Cup for the second time in four days as it topped Puebla 3-0 Sunday at Q2 Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Uzuni recorded his hat trick in the match\u2019s first 35 minutes, scoring on a brilliant free kick from 30 yards out in the fourth minute, finishing a 90-second, 27-pass Austin FC buildup from just outside the six-yard box in the seventh minute, then drilling a one-touch from the far corner of the box on a corner kick in the 34th.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the second hat trick in club history, following Moussa Djitt\u00e9 recording one Sept. 14, 2022 against Real Salt Lake at Q2 Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Austin FC can advance to the knockout stage of the competition with a win or shootout win Thursday over Club Am\u00e9rica and some other helpful results. (Only four teams from each league qualify for the knockout stage.)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Myrto Uzuni scored a hat trick and Austin FC recorded a convincing win over a Liga MX side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,135,134,133,136,141024],"class_list":["post-402295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-fc","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mls","tag-puebla-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402295","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=402295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}