{"id":425887,"date":"2026-09-04T07:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425887\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T07:58:08","slug":"charlotte-fc-plays-the-houston-dynamo-on-the-heels-of-shutout-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425887\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte FC plays the Houston Dynamo on the heels of shutout win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Houston Dynamo<\/a> (12-7-3, third in the Western Conference) vs. Charlotte FC<\/a> (10-7-5, fourth in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n

Charlotte, North Carolina; Saturday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Charlotte FC +120, Houston +200, Draw<\/a> +253; over\/under is 2.5 goals<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: A game after shutting out Atlanta United 2-0, Charlotte FC plays the Houston Dynamo.<\/p>\n

Charlotte is 7-2-3 at home. Pep Biel<\/a> paces the third-ranked scoring team in the Eastern Conference with 11. Charlotte has scored 40 goals.<\/p>\n

The Dynamo are 5-5-1 in road games. The Dynamo have a 21-4-2 record in games they score two goals.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Saturday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Biel has scored 11 goals with six assists for Charlotte. Idan Gorno<\/a> has three goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Mateusz Bogusz<\/a> has scored four goals and added one assist for the Dynamo. Jack Mcglynn has three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Charlotte: 21-3-6, averaging 6.0 goals, 15.3 shots on goal and 14.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Dynamo: 20-1-9, averaging 3.9 goals, 12.6 shots on goal and 11.4 corner kicks per game while allowing 1.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n

NOT EXPECTED TO PLAY: Charlotte: Aron John<\/a> (injured), Nimfasha Berchimas<\/a> (injured), Harry Toffolo<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

Dynamo: Marcelo Saracchi<\/a> (injured), Jimmy Maurer<\/a> (injured).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston Dynamo (12-7-3, third in the Western Conference) vs. Charlotte FC (10-7-5, fourth in the Eastern Conference) Charlotte,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[148077,148075,148080,148079,56,58,57,148076,70683,96261,144162,59944,136,148078],"class_list":["post-425887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-aron-john","tag-charlotte-fc","tag-fifa-world-cup-2026-final-draw","tag-harry-toffolo","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-idan-gorno","tag-jack-mcglynn","tag-jimmy-maurer","tag-marcelo-saracchi","tag-mateusz-bogusz","tag-mls","tag-nimfasha-berchimas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425887","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=425887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}