Three days after qualifying for the Leagues Cup knockout stage, Austin FC couldn’t translate that momentum to MLS play Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Verde and Black lost 2-1 to FC Dallas in a rivalry match at at Q2 Stadium, falling eight points out of the final playoff spot in the Western Confernce in the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A couple of defensive lapses proved costly to Austin FC.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Joseph Rosales was outmuscled by Lalas Abubakar on a corner kick in first-half stoppage time, which allowed the latter to score on a header, and Guilherme Biro gave Petar Musa too much space defensively late in the second half, letting the Croatian national rip a shot from the top of the box for the goal that was the difference in the match.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ervin Torres, who continues to impress at 18 years old, scored for Austin FC early in the second half to tie the contest.<\/p>\n
Austin FC (4-10-5, 17 points) has another quick turnaround as it plays Wednesday at Seattle.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three days after qualifying for the Leagues Cup knockout stage, Austin FC couldn’t translate that momentum to MLS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[135,102,104,103,2124,136],"class_list":["post-408621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-austin-fc","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-fc-dallas","tag-mls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408621","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=408621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}