The Houston Dynamo Sentinel
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Lucas Halter scores twice — 9.05
Two goals and a mark of 9.05 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match22 Jul 2028
Lucas Halter settles it late for Houston Dynamo
The 85th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Lucas Halter decided nobody was going anywhere. Austin FC had no time left to answer.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Artur says Houston Dynamo went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Héctor Herrera in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Houston Dynamo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Jul 2028
Lucas Halter sends Houston Dynamo past Austin FC
It finished 2‑0, and it was Lucas Halter’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Houston Dynamo.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Mateusz Bogusz in the eights
A performance of 8.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Walker Zimmerman
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Words at Houston Dynamo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Juan Manuel Vázquez is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Ibrahim Aliyu runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Player ratings Agustín Bouzat was immovable
- Market Houston Dynamo put Duane Holmes up for sale
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Mateusz Bogusz