{"id":408924,"date":"2026-08-17T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408924\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T14:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:46:58","slug":"musa-scores-mls-best-dallas-beats-austin-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/408924\/","title":{"rendered":"Musa scores MLS-best, Dallas beats Austin 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Musa scored<\/a> in the 73rd minute \u2014 with some help from Joaqu\u00edn Valiente \u2014 to set the final margin. Valiente has six assists through his first 17 appearances.<\/p>\n

Defender Lalas Abubakar took<\/a> a corner kick from Santiago Moreno 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 scored<\/a> 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 finished with two saves for Dallas (8-5-6), including one during second-half stoppage time on a shot by Jayden Nelson.<\/p>\n

Brad Stuver 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 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Austin: At Seattle Sounders on Wednesday.<\/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":408925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[556,555,557,132,134,133,102,223,82,154,27],"class_list":["post-408924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-app-professional-sports","tag-app-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-dallas","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-sports","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408924","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=408924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}