HOUSTON (Aug. 19, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0played San Jose Earthquakes II to a 1-1 draw at\u00a0SaberCats\u00a0Stadium\u00a0earlier this evening. The visiting team won the\u00a0penalty\u00a0shootout 5-3 to claim the additional point.<\/p>\n
Houston can still clinch a spot in the\u00a02026 MLS NEXT Pro playoffs\u00a0with a North Texas SC loss tonight against Austin FC II.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The match saw midfielder\u00a0Vitor\u00a0Andr\u00e9\u00a0make his first professional start after\u00a0signing<\/a>\u00a0with the team earlier this month.<\/p>\n Dynamo 2 took the lead in the ninth minute when forward\u00a0Arthur\u00a0Sousa\u00a0played defender\u00a0Vinicius\u00a0Silva\u00a0in behind the backline and into the box, where Silva ripped a powerful left-footed shot towards goal, finding the inside of the far post for his fourth goal of the season. The play also marked Sousa’s fourth assist of the year.<\/p>\n San Jose leveled the match in the 78th\u00a0minute when Zachary Bohane delivered a corner to Jacob Heisner at the far post for a header.<\/p>\n Goalkeeper\u00a0Logan\u00a0Erb\u00a0was called into action in the seventh minute, coming off his line and standing strong to deny Julian Donnery’s shot from inside the box. The shot stopper finished the night with two saves.<\/p>\n Erb delivered another key save in the 31st\u00a0minute when Kaedren Spivey’s left-footed strike forced the American goalkeeper to dive low to his left to make the save.\u00a0<\/p>\n Midfielder\u00a0Gustavo\u00a0Dohmann\u00a0took his chances from\u00a0long\u00a0range in the 32nd\u00a0minute with a powerful right-footed shot that sailed over the crossbar.<\/p>\n Houston created a scoring opportunity in the 50th\u00a0minute when Silva, from the left flank, found attacker\u00a0SamirMohammad\u00a0on a run towards the center of the box. However, Mohammad’s shot was denied by the visiting goalkeeper.<\/p>\n Mohammad had another dangerous chance in the 61st\u00a0minute with a left-footed shot from inside the box that almost found the inside of the far post.<\/p>\n Midfielder\u00a0D’Alessandro\u00a0Herrera\u00a0almost found the back of the net in the 86th\u00a0minute after dribbling into the box from the left flank and forcing the San Jose goalkeeper to make a diving save to his left.<\/p>\n Houston next hits the road to face St. Louis CITY2 on Sunday, Aug. 23, with kickoff scheduled for 6:00 p.m. CT at Energizer Park. Fans can tune into the action via\u00a0MLSNEXTPro.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0OneFootball<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (Aug. 19, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0played San Jose Earthquakes II to a 1-1 draw at\u00a0SaberCats\u00a0Stadium\u00a0earlier this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6963,56,6964,58,57],"class_list":["post-411470","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\/411470","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=411470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}