Houston Dynamo vs. Real Salt Lake | Leagues Cup | Match Highlights | August 5, 2024

Ben Olsson said it's just getting him minutes because he deserves it that backline stays the same Escobar is going to have to get forward a little bit more tonight we know dorsy will as well but my eyes are on Diego Luna Andres Gomez these are two players that can cause headaches for any team as again Ben Olsen mentioned Diego Luna finds a way to be dangerous against them every time first half whistle gets us going and it's the orange crush attacking from Ur to bang It Wide for blessing dorsy dumps it off clipped onto the back post and headed away initially follow up shot neon and in from distance a a opens to scoring and Houston had the goal they desperately [Applause] needed whose numbers have been down just a little bit this year one goal and three assists in Major League Soccer but you see here doesn't try to strike too hard he makes clean contact yes the bulk of this goal is going to come from that deflection that lifts the ball above Beaver unable to do it but look at this contact point just clean calm collected strikes that ball perfectly and you see it skip up no chance to make that save but when you make that kind of contact on the ball you're not trying to put it in the top corner just historical Mark for an RSL player currently held by Alvaro savario back post ball is a good one and what a save from Tarbell late arriving Justin glad up brilliant that's just a fantastic ball in swinger into a perfect spot glad actually makes good contact with it trying to play through look like he wanted to just get enough touch to push it through for Pon and now out in the open run here hint of offside But Here Comes Gomez tarbo comes up big again the flag stays down this by much at least from there and we go back to Gomez again behind that back line trying to use a step over to get to the end line good defending there though from bod hialgo zenko calling his own number and it'll go just wide the Danish Center back stepping up into the fold and letting it go from distance see if they can test the 19-year-old Gavin beavers and ADOT driving it to the back po beavers K it's two nil m rising up to head it home and the script going all is planned for Houston here in the first [Applause] half perance look at this inswinger right into the spot that you won and Mikel just Rises up times it perfectly on the lead but full extension recognizing beavers way off his line doesn't have to do much but redirect that on frame to get himself that second goal Lalo approaching Midfield trying to Spring Anderson Julio flag stays down for the moment here is the Ecuadorian and third big save of the first half from Andrew Tarbell who gets the start in place of Steve Clark I wasn't sure he was going to close out space it was close but he was laying out sieno now for dorsy dorsy will clip it first time in front Pon gets on the ball welcome to Houston Ezekiel P makes it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] three just head down whips that in behind the back line Justin glad just going pace for Pon and he's able to get that inside Lane on him and just reset his body and I'm not sure who gets the final contact on that we'll see here and Pon just really doing a good job to redirect his body and just get a big boot on that ball not having to put any Pace on it and red redirects that one past beavers takes in a number of factors including quality of chances where you get your chances number of chances great overlap there from Chicho out in front Kooks with a great look and somehow it stays out of the back of the Houston net what a feed from Chicho arango but it's still 3-0 Houston and arango just puts that one perfectly and that's a ball that krro has to be able to finish and we'll see what goes wrong here tackled away right under the feet of blessing looking for the corner it's deflected on the way and Houston will get their first Corner [Music] tonight fenko he'll swing it in near post oh and right on the mark shoot it at the back post Vera to drive it punched Away by TBO I mean you see the way that he strikes that ball you know he as we tick into this final 20 minutes here RSL really hasn't had trouble covering the first twoth thirds of the field Brody will bring it forward now for Luna it's when they get right here that they've been unable to unlock the answers Luna can he do it right here bending for The Far Side daro big save Gomez late to arrive on the followup and out get another look at it and again unable to clear the lines Luna recognizing the danger it just has to go through a crowded area Gomez has run at him now it's Lawrence anali running at the RSL defense he'll play square into the feet of blessing blessing back for the young German in front off of the face of beavers I don't think he knew much about it but it stays out of the RSL net again a noie just creating that separation and now the attack opens up it's a little bit behind blessing but he keeps that Play Alive good good Dynamic run and an incredible flick on I mean look at this footwork straight off the face of beavers just staying big and sometimes you got to use your hands and sometimes you use your face any part of the body but it has to be concerning for RSL when you look at a long extended run and trying to go deep into the MLS Cup playoffs an Al gets past the first one an Al beavers has to go down and come up with the save I mean the way an Al just swims past Defenders with ease is really impressive and I get it rce Ben olssen for a big hug and there is the full-time whistle I don't know that there was many that thought they could do it but certainly Ben olon and the Dynamo did