Houston Dynamo vs Austin FC - prediction, team news, lineups

Houston Dynamo and Austin FC look disconnected astatine Shell Energy Stadium connected Sunday successful the latest circular of Major League Soccer action.

Houston resumed their home run with a 1-1 gully against DC United past clip out, portion Austin claimed an emphatic 3-1 triumph implicit the Seattle Sounders.

Match preview

After heading into the World Cup interruption with conscionable 1 triumph from 4 matches, including a US Open Cup exit to St. Louis, Houston secured confidence-boosting affable wins implicit Olimpia and America de Cali during the hiatus.

Ben Olsen’s broadside appeared acceptable for each 3 points successful Thursday’s instrumentality to league enactment against DC United, taking the pb done Hector Herrera earlier being pegged backmost 12 minutes from time.

A triumph would person lifted Houston to sixth successful the Western Conference, but they stay seventh, conscionable 1 constituent wide successful the contention for the last guaranteed play-off spot.

Still unbeaten astatine location since April, La Naranja volition beryllium anxious to instrumentality to winning ways arsenic the 2026 regular play approaches its midway point.

Winless successful their past 3 matches against Sunday’s opponents, Houston person not fared good successful this fixture, mostly owed to their susceptibility to being caught retired aboriginal connected arsenic they person conceded the opener successful 7 of the past 9 editions.

With a hectic August up - six games successful 28 days - Houston volition beryllium hoping for a beardown show to adjacent retired July.

After 3 consecutive MLS defeats, Austin saw the sojourn of a struggling Seattle Sounders broadside arsenic the cleanable accidental to get backmost connected track, and they capitalised with a 3-1 victory.

In conscionable his 2nd competitory lucifer successful charge, Davy Arnaud was sent into raptures connected the touchline by precocious goals from Myrto Uzuni and Christian Ramirez. The 46-year-old volition anticipation Thursday’s triumph provides a level to physique on.

Having antecedently served arsenic Houston manager betwixt August and October 2019, Arnaud present aims to get 1 implicit his erstwhile club. His existent broadside beryllium second-bottom successful the Western Conference, 5 points adrift of the play-off places.

Austin stay the lone MLS broadside yet to triumph connected the roadworthy this season, and a travel to Houston is hardly the perfect spot to code those away-day struggles. Los Verdes person mislaid 3 of their past 4 visits to Shell Energy Stadium.

With Leagues Cup enactment approaching, Austin volition beryllium anxious to inject further momentum into their league run earlier turning their attraction to continental duties.

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Team News

Antonio Carlos is acceptable to miss a 3rd consecutive crippled for Houston Dynamo, truthful Lucas Halter, who lone precocious returned to competitory action, should proceed astatine the bosom of the defence alongside Agustin Resch.

Jimmy Maurer has not featured since April owed to a backmost wounded and is besides sidelined for the hosts, on with Sam Vines.

Jamaican planetary Jon Bell remains retired with a pelvic injury, making him a definite absentee for Austin, portion Mikkel Desler has yet to retrieve from an Achilles tendon issue.

Myrto Uzuni marked his comeback with a well-taken extremity past clip out, his sixth of the play successful 14 appearances.

That matches his tally from the full 2025 campaign, erstwhile helium featured 29 times.

Houston Dynamo imaginable starting lineup:

Bond; Andrade, Halter, Resch, Ennali; Artur; Bogusz, McGlynn, Herrera, Guilherme; McGuire

Austin FC imaginable starting lineup:

Stuver; Hines-Ike, Svatok, Biro; Rosales, Sanchez, Sabovic, Gallagher; Torres, Vazquez, Uzuni

We say: Houston Dynamo 2-1 Austin FC

With the past 3 editions of this fixture producing a combined 10 goals, each signs constituent to different entertaining brushwood this play arsenic 2 sides with plentifulness of content look off.

Austin’s distant struggles marque them underdogs, and we backmost Houston to capitalise and unafraid each 3 points.

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