Houston Dynamo at St. Louis CITY SC - Champions Cup: Highlights, stats, and quotes
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The Houston Dynamo began their 2024 campaign with Concacaf Champions Cup play in St. Louis. A late goal gave CITY a 2-1 win in the first leg. The teams will meet again this coming Tuesday for the second leg, with the aggregate score of the two games determining who will advance.
MATCH SUMMARY
St. Louis CITY SC 2-1 Houston Dynamo FC
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Venue: CITYPARK - St. Louis, Missouri
Referee: Adonai Escobedo
Assistants: Christian Espinosa, Michel Espinoza
Fourth Official: Daniel Quintero
VAR: Guillermo Pacheco
Attendance: 20,900
Weather: 51 degrees, clear skies
SCORING SUMMARY
STL: Tim Parker (Indiana Vassilev) 61’
HOU: Sebastian Kowalczyk (Aliyu Ibrahim) 72’
STL: Hosei Kijima (unassisted) 90’
DISCIPLINE SUMMARY
HOU: Steve Clark (caution; time wasting) 21’
HOU: Griffin Dorsey (caution; foul) 89’
LINEUPS & STATS
St. Louis CITY SC: Roman Burki; Tomas Ostrak (Celio Pompeu 74’), Chris Durkin (Eduard Lowen 75’), Joao Klauss, Anthony Markanich; Tomas Totland, Josh Yaro, Samuel Adeniran; Indiana Vassilev (Njabulo Blom 62’), Aziel Jackson (Hosei Kijima 86’), Tim Parker
Unused Substitutes: Christian Olivares, Benjamin Lundt, Jake Nerwinksi, Joakim Nilsson, Akil Watts, Kyle Hiebert, Noekkvi Thorisson, Nikolas Dyhr
Total shots: 14 (Samuel Adeniran 4)
Shots on goal: 5 (five players tied with 1)
Fouls: 9 (Eduard Lowen and Samuel Adeniran tied with 2)
Offside: 1 (Tim Parker 1)
Corner kicks: 6
Saves: 1 (Roman Burki 1)
Houston Dynamo FC: Steve Clark; Tate Schmitt, Micael, Erik Sviatchenko, Griffin Dorsey; Artur, Adalberto Carrasquilla (Ján Greguš 84’), Brooklyn Raines; Sebastian Kowalczyk (Daniel Steres 84’), Sebas Ferreira (Brad Smith 25’), Aliyu Ibrahim (Gabe Segal 75’)
Unused substitutes: Xavier Valdez, Stephen Annor, Kieran Sargeant, Femi Awodesu, Diego Gonzalez
Total shots: 6 (Micael 3)
Shots on goal: 2 (Sebastian Kowalczyk and Erik Sviatchenko tied with 1)
Fouls: 12 (Griffin Dorsey 4)
Offside: 2 (Adalberto Carrasquilla and Aliyu Ibrahim tied with 1)
Corner kicks: 3
Saves: 3 (Steve Clark 3)
HOUSTON DYNAMO HEAD COACH BEN OLSEN
On the result:
“It stings a little bit in the moment, but it was a heck of an effort from our group. We live to fight another day and get an away goal, which is important for the aggregate score when we host them at our place next week. There were a lot of really good performances tonight, and I’m happy with the overall gameplan. It would have been nice to leave here with a tie though.”
HOUSTON DYNAMO MIDFIELDER SEBASTIAN KOWALCZYK
On scoring his first goal for the club:
“It was an important moment for me because I was waiting for my first goal. I’m happy that it happened tonight, but the result is not what we expected. It was good that we scored an away goal though, and we have to do everything we can at home to win the next game and reach the next round.”
