ST. LOUIS — Dante Polvara scored in the 85th minute to give St. Louis City a 2-1 victory Saturday against the Houston Dynamo, extending their franchise-high MLS unbeaten streak to 11 games.<\/p>\n
Polvara scored for the first time this year with a left-footed blast from the middle of the box inside the left post. The shot came after a botched clearance attempt by a Houston defender.<\/p>\n
Simon Becher also scored as St. Louis City (9-6-6, 33 points) ended the five- game winning streak of the Dynamo.<\/p>\n
St. Louis City improved to 8-0-3 during their unbeaten run and with Becher\u2019s tally in the 23rd minute ending the Dynamo\u2019s streak of 485 minutes without surrendering a goal.<\/p>\n
Ibrahim Aliyu scored in the 75th minute for the Dynamo (12-7-2, 38 points), who also lost at St. Louis in the U.S. Open Cup quarterfinals in May.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Bond had two saves for the Dynamo, while Roman Burki had three saves for St. Louis City.<\/p>\n
Bond came up short in his attempt to record his sixth straight clean sheet, which would have matched an MLS record shared by three keepers.<\/p>\n
After neither team generated much offense early in the game, St. Louis broke through thanks to a series of short passes from the left flank and then a deflection in the penalty box.<\/p>\n
Becher gathered the free ball with his back to the goal before wheeling and firing a 17-yard blast from the right side of the box that was just inside the right post.<\/p>\n
The last two St. Louis players to touch the ball, Alexandru Matan and Conrad Wallem, were credited with assists for St. Louis.<\/p>\n
In the 66th minute, Mateusz Bogusz scored what appeared to be the equalizer, but he was called for offside after taking a deft across-the-grain pass from Jack McGlynn.<\/p>\n
Bogusz helped Houston get the equalizer as he took a pass from Lawrence Ennali and blasted a shot from the right side of the penalty box.<\/p>\n
Burki blocked the attempt but the ball caromed to Aliyu who scored from point-blank range. It was the second goal this year for the reserve forward who entered in the 57th minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LOUIS — Dante Polvara scored in the 85th minute to give St. Louis City a 2-1 victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-414607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414607","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=414607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}