Dynamo at FC Cincinnati: Highlights, stats, and quotes
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The Houston Dynamo opened the 2023 Major League Soccer season with a 2-1 loss on the road to FC Cincinnati. New left back Tate Schmitt got the Dynamo goal but it wasn’t enough on the night. Houston travels to New England next Saturday for a meeting with the Revolution.
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MATCH SUMMARY
FC Cincinnati 2 – 1 Houston Dynamo FC
Saturday, February 25, 2023
Venue: TQL Stadium - Cincinnati, Ohio
Referee: Chris Penso
Assistants: Jason White, Jeffrey Swartzel
Fourth Official: Eduardo Jeff
VAR: Michael Radchuk
Attendance: 25,513
Weather: 54 degrees, clear skies
SCORING SUMMARY
CIN: Sergio Santo (Alvaro Barreal) 99’
HOU: Tate Schmitt (Hector Herrera) 45+2’
CIN: Obinna Nwobodo (unassisted) 48’
DISCIPLINE SUMMARY
HOU: Artur (caution; foul) 10’
HOU: Tate Schmitt (caution; foul) 81’
CIN: Alvaro Barreal (caution; foul) 84’
LINEUPS & STATS
FC Cincinnati: Roman Celentano, Yerson Mosquera (Ian Murphy 73), Matt Miazga, Nick Hagglund, Álvaro Barreal (Raymon Gaddis 86) , Santiago Arias (Alvas Powell 87); Junior Moreno, Luciano Acosta, Obinna Nwobodo (Yuya Kubo 87); Sergio Santos (Brenner 62), Brandon Vazquez
Unused Substitutes: Evan Louro, Marco Angulo, Dominique Badjki, Arquimides Ordonez
Total shots: 14 (Alvaro Barreal and Sergio Santos tied with 3)
Shots on goal: 5 (Luciano Acosta 2)
Fouls: 13 (Alvaro Barreal, Luciano Acosta, and Sergio Santos tied with 3)
Offside: 2 (Matt Miazga and Brenner tied with 1)
Corner kicks: 0
Saves: 7 (Roman Celentano 7)
Houston Dynamo FC: Steve Clark; Tate Schmitt, Teenage Hadebe, Ethan Bartlow, Franco Escobar (Griffin Dorsey 72); Artur, Coco Carrasquilla, Héctor Herrera (c); Ivan Franco (Brooklyn Raines 90+5), Sebas Ferreira (Thor Úlfarsson 78), Corey Baird (Nelson Quiñones 72)
Unused substitutes: Andrew Tarbell, Charles Auguste, Micael, Daniel Steres, Beto Avila
Total shots: 20 (Ivan Franco 5)
Shots on goal: 8 (Ivan Franco 3)
Fouls: 10 (Hector Herrera and Coco Carrasquilla tied with 2)
Offside: 0
Corner kicks: 7
Saves: 2 (Steve Clark 2)
HOUSTON DYNAMO HEAD COACH BEN OLSEN
On positive takeaways:
“There's so many positives. Defensive structure and transitions were pretty good on the defensive end. Offensively, I thought the way we dictated the game's final third. Our entries were good, set pieces were very good all night. We gave them trouble with those. Hector (Herrera) was fantastic. There's a lot of positives, but still, you leave wanting a little bit more.”
HOUSTON DYNAMO MIDFIELDER ARTUR
On what was needed to win today:
“The effort was there. We had a lot of moments with good quality in passing the ball, I think someone might say we slept a little bit and we got to take care of that and fix that those moments where we are a little bit too casual. We got to pay attention playing against good teams with good attacking options. We got to defend well the counter attacks, but I believe also that we need to score when you have the chances. We had a few chances that we could have done better with, but it's the first game and I believe we're going to get it right.”
HOUSTON DYNAMO DEFENDER TATE SCHMITT
On the result:
“I think the performance, going down on the road is never easy but finding that equalizer shows the grit that we can come from behind and tie it up. Then it's just the little mistakes that we kind of gave at times, didn't gift them the opportunities. Also just looking at the positives, so the chances that we did create the amount of possession that we sustained in the second half, as well as the second part of the first half. The will to just keep going. The season is long. You know, if we continue putting out the performances that we did today, we're going to be in a good spot come the end of the year. We just look at the performance at hand today and realize we've got another opportunity next week.”
