{"id":408698,"date":"2026-08-17T06:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408698\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T06:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T06:14:19","slug":"petar-musa-scores-mls-best-14th-goal-to-rally-dallas-to-2-1-victory-over-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408698\/","title":{"rendered":"Petar Musa scores MLS-best 14th goal to rally Dallas to 2-1 victory over Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Petar Musa<\/a> scored his league-leading 14th goal and FC Dallas<\/a> beat Austin FC 2-1 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Musa scored in the 73rd minute \u2014 with some help from Joaquin Valiente<\/a> \u2014 to set the final margin. Valiente has six assists through his first 17 appearances.<\/p>\n

Defender Lalas Abubakar took a corner kick from Santiago Moreno<\/a> and scored with a header two minutes into stoppage time to give Dallas a 1-0 lead at halftime. <\/p>\n

Moreno collected his second assist of the campaign on Abubakar’s first netter this season and his 13th in 201 career matches.<\/p>\n

Eighteen-year-old Ervin Torres<\/a> scored his first career goal in spectacular fashion \u2014 unassisted in the 57th minute to pull Austin even. <\/p>\n

Torres, a homegrown product, saw action for the sixth time this season after making one 7-minute appearance in both 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Sirois<\/a> finished with two saves for Dallas (8-5-6), including one during second-half stoppage time on a shot by Jayden Nelson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brad Stuver<\/a> saved four shots for Austin (4-10-5). The veteran entered with 89 saves \u2014 tops in the league.<\/p>\n

Dallas improves to 3-2-2 on the road against Austin and leads the overall series 9-2-3 with a plus-nine goal differential.<\/p>\n

Austin has struggled under interim coach Davy Arnaud. Former Union coach Jim Curtain will take the reins following the season.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Dallas: At Real Salt Lake<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Austin: At Seattle Sounders on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full soccer coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas (AP) \u2014 Petar Musa scored his league-leading 14th goal and FC Dallas beat Austin FC 2-1…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,68046,2124,142773,62042,136,30548,86851],"class_list":["post-408698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-event_recap","tag-fc-dallas","tag-joaquin-valiente","tag-jonathan-sirois","tag-mls","tag-petar-musa","tag-santiago-moreno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408698","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=408698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}