{"id":475980,"date":"2026-10-25T03:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475980\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T03:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T03:42:09","slug":"petar-musa-takes-control-to-lead-fc-dallas-to-victory-over-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/475980\/","title":{"rendered":"Petar Musa takes control to lead FC Dallas to victory over Earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRISCO, Texas (AP) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/fc-dallas\/article\/petar-musa-golden-boot-history-22221184.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Petar Musa<\/a> scored twice in a five-minute span late in the second half and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sports\/fc-dallas\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">FC Dallas<\/a> beat San Jose 3-0 on Saturday night behind former Earthquakes goalkeeper Daniel De Sousa Britto.<\/p>\n<p>Musa ended De Sousa Britto&#8217;s scoreless duel with Angus Gunn when he used assists from Bernard Kamungo and Santiago Moreno to score in the 83rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Musa added his 21st goal of the season \u2014 second only to the 25 of Inter Miami&#8217;s Lionel Messi \u2014 in the 88th minute on a penalty kick. Musa took the PK after Kaick Ferreira was fouled by San Jose defender Paul Marie.<\/p>\n<p>Moreno capped the scoring when he used an assist from Ramiro Benetti in the fourth minute of stoppage time to notch his fourth goal along with his third assist.<\/p>\n<p>De Sousa Britto finished with one save to earn his fourth clean sheet in his eighth start with Dallas (15-7-9), which began the day in third place in the Western Conference. He had five shutouts in 15 starts with the Earthquakes before leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Gunn totaled four saves for fourth-place San Jose (13-9-9) in his 14th career start.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams have already qualified for the postseason, but Dallas earned a season sweep after posting a 3-2 victory on the road in late May.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose: Hosts Colorado Rapids on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas: Hosts Columbus Crew on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO, Texas (AP) \u2014 Petar Musa scored twice in a five-minute span late in the second half and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,102,104,103,30548,93779],"class_list":["post-475980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-petar-musa","tag-tp-toyota-stadium"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475980","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=475980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}