Albert Russian scored twice in the second half as Visiting Seattle Sounders defeated Short-Hand Houston Dynamo 3–1 on Saturday night.
Danny Mussovski, playing for the injured Jordan Morris (Hamstring), scored a franchise single-season record by scoring in the fifth consecutive match for sounders (5-3-4, 19 points), which extended his unbeaten line to five (4–0-1).
Femi Awodesu scored for Dynamo (2-6-4, 10 points), but in the first half, late Houston was sent late to leave the rest of the night with 10 players.
Rusak broke the tie 1–1 in the initial minute of the second half. Yehimar Gomez Andrade sent a pass for Pedro de la Vega, a halftime option, which went back to the right line on the rightist before cutting Russak back, which found out 12 yards away with a left-foot shot of the lower left corner of the net.
Rusak scored again in the 58th minute. Ryan Kent removed the ball with an end line on the left wing and pasted the ball to an honoring Russian at the top of the 6-yard box, which sent a right-leg blast to the lower left corner.
Mussovski opened scoring on a reversal in the 22nd minute. Christian Rolden sent a stretch pass below the Right Wing to Paul Rothrock, which reached the top of the 18-yard box before sending a cross to a identified Mussovski. From 5 yards, his lepping header took a bounce and on the left side of the net, Dynamo’s goalkeeper Jonathan Bond did not leave any chance.
Dynamo tied it in the 32nd minute. Jack McGlin’s free kick 30 yards away from the right wing, Avodesu was found in a remote post for a close-range header that Seattle goalkeeper Stephen Freei had got his hand, but could not stop reaching the back of the net.
The match changed to the 38th minute. Free’s long ball took a bounce on top of Houston’s penalty region, where Avodesu’s handball prevented Mussovski from a goal-scoring opportunity.
The referee Victor Review immediately pointed to the penalty spot and took out the red card from his pocket. A video review determined that the violation was done excluded excluding the top of the 18-yard box, but the ejection stood up. The upcoming free kick of Russian was blocked.
Free made two highlight-rad-rituals in the second half, jumped to deflect the header of Griffin Daisi in the 60th minute and made a diving stop on McGlin’s free kick in 85th.
Seattle Ruki Osze de Rosario, whose father was among the former Dynamo players honored on Saturday as part of the 20th anniversary ceremony of Dwayne team, came as an alternative in the 79th minute.
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