Overview
- With five games remaining, Houston is 10th on 33 points and Colorado is seventh on 36, and nine teams per conference reach the postseason.
- A win at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park would put the Dynamo level on points and ahead of the Rapids on goal differential.
- Head coach Ben Olsen said the Dynamo understand the importance of the matchup and will approach the run-in one point at a time.
- In Houston’s latest outing, Ezequiel Ponce scored off an Ondrej Lingr pass before the LA Galaxy’s Lucas Sanabria equalized in the ninth minute of stoppage time.
- Colorado enters on consecutive losses, 7-2 to the Galaxy and 4-2 to Sporting KC, and has added 22-year-old winger Alexis Manyoma on loan after his Sept. 4 visa clearance.