Houston Dynamo v Minnesota United: Miami win shows visitors can compete with the best, says Ramsay

Minnesota United’s 4-1 thrashing of Inter Miami showed that the Loons tin vie with the precise champion successful the MLS, truthful says their caput manager Eric Ramsay.

Minnesota brushed speech Lionel Messi’s Miami with comparative ease, earning a connection triumph aboriginal successful the play and moving them up to 2nd successful the Western Conference.

Ramsay’s broadside person lone mislaid 1 of their past 11 regular-season matches, though the Minnesota brag did not privation his players to get carried distant aft their latest win.

“I deliberation for the nine arsenic a full that was truly important, but certainly, for america arsenic a team, to amusement that we tin vie with the precise champion was truly important for us,” Ramsay said.

“We’re evidently successful a bully spot astatine the moment, but we’ve got to support that going, we’ve got to support working.

“We got to marque definite that this feeling doesn’t dwell really, and we’re consecutive from time onto that crippled connected Wednesday night.”

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For the Houston Dynamo, meanwhile, they travel into the contention connected the backmost of a disappointing 3-1 decision to the Seattle Sounders, a crippled they finished with 10 men.

Femi Awodesu, who had restored parity for Houston successful the archetypal half, was sent disconnected six minutes aft his leveller, with the Sounders capitalising successful the 2nd half.

Head manager Ben Olsen fumed astatine the determination to nonstop Awodesu disconnected successful the match, but reiterated that his team’s mediocre commencement yet outgo them successful the game.

“It was a truly bully archetypal fractional from america against a bully team,” Olsen said. “Resiliency to travel backmost and get the goal.

“But what p****** maine disconnected though was that our commencement was terrible. To not beryllium capable to grind a small spot arsenic a radical was truly disappointing. I don’t attraction if you are a antheral down. You grind.

“You find a mode to get thing retired of the crippled oregon marque it truly tough, and it was mode excessively casual successful the archetypal 10 minutes. They got their 2 goals, and that was disappointing.”

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Houston Dynamo – Jack McGlynn

McGlynn was the standout performer for the Dynamo successful their decision to the Sounders, grabbing the assistance for Awodesu’s goal.

He besides ended the contention with a team-high 5 chances created and joint-most shots (four, level with Griffin Dorsey).

Minnesota United – Julian Gressel

After starting connected the seat against Miami past clip out, Gressel volition beryllium pushing for a commencement against 1 of his favoured opponents successful the MLS.

He has scored 4 goals successful 7 regular-season matches against Houston successful his MLS career, his astir against immoderate hostile successful regular-season play.

MATCH PREDICTION: HOUSTON DYNAMO WIN

Houston avoided decision successful some meetings with Minnesota past play (W1 D1). The Loons had won 7 consecutive regular-season matches against the Dynamo from 2021 until 2023.

The Dynamo are, however, disconnected to the worst 12-match commencement to a play successful nine past with conscionable 10 points (W2 D4 L6). Their minus-eight extremity quality is their worst astatine this signifier of a campaign, having ne'er been worse than minus-three before.

Minnesota, meanwhile, are connected a five-game roadworthy unbeaten streak successful league play (W3 D2), astir precocious with a 3-0 triumph astatine Austin FC. That tied for the largest borderline of triumph successful a roadworthy MLS lucifer successful squad history.

OPTA WIN PROBABILITY

Houston Dynamo – 42%

Draw – 26.7%

Minnesota United – 31.3%