HOUSTON (Sept. 4, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0fell 2-0 to Austin FC II at\u00a0SaberCats\u00a0Stadium\u00a0earlier this evening.<\/p>\n
Tonight’s match saw midfielder\u00a0Gilberto\u00a0Rivera\u00a0return to orange after Dynamo 2\u00a0recalled<\/a>\u00a0him from his\u00a0loan<\/a>\u00a0to Phoenix Rising FC in the USL Championship. It also saw Dynamo Academy player\u00a0Christopher\u00a0Gonzalezmake his professional debut in the 86th\u00a0minute.<\/p>\n Austin took the lead early in the second minute when Erick Feliciano connected on a loose ball inside the box and found the bottom right corner. Patrick Gryczewski then extended Austin’s lead in the 75th\u00a0minute with a finish inside the box.<\/p>\n Houston forced a dangerous chance in the 18th\u00a0minute when midfielder\u00a0Gustavo\u00a0Dohmann\u00a0nearly capitalized on an Austin error inside the box, but Dohmann’s shot was instead denied by goalkeeper Charlie Farar.<\/p>\n Rivera tried his luck from long range in the 34th\u00a0minute with a powerful low-driven shot that forced Farar to make a diving save to his right.<\/p>\n Dynamo 2 nearly leveled the match in the 40th\u00a0minute when striker\u00a0Austin\u00a0Brummett’s\u00a0penalty kick was saved in the bottom right corner. The penalty was awarded after Patrick\u00a0Cayelli was deemed to have fouled Brummett inside the box.<\/p>\n Goalkeeper\u00a0Logan\u00a0Erb\u00a0was called into action in the 64th\u00a0minute, denying a crucial one-on-one against Stefan Dobrijevic. The shot stopper finished the night with two saves.<\/p>\n Houston continued to push offensively, with Rivera creating an opportunity in the 79th\u00a0minute when he found defender\u00a0Chibuike Ukaegbu\u00a0in the box for a right-footed shot that missed the far post by inches.\u00a0<\/p>\n Houston next travel to face another in-state matchup versus North Texas SC on Wednesday, Sept. 9, at Mansfield Stadium, with kickoff scheduled for 7:45 p.m. CT. Fans can follow the action live via\u00a0MLSNEXTPro.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0OneFootball<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (Sept. 4, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0fell 2-0 to Austin FC II at\u00a0SaberCats\u00a0Stadium\u00a0earlier this evening. Tonight’s match…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6963,56,6964,58,57],"class_list":["post-426743","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\/426743","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=426743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}