2020 has been brutal and Dallas has been spared either. After a sloppy turnover that led to Houston taking a 1-0 lead, Dallas then lost Matt Hedges to injury in the 33rd minute. But it appeared that 2020 was going to be kind to Dallas in the form of a red card and Dallas would have an entire half up a man. Instead of taking full opportunity of being up a man, Dallas couldn’t break down the Houston defense and gave up a soft penalty to lose 2-0.
Let’s start with the positive: Maurer and Ricaurte
As bad as losing 2-0 is to Houston, that scoreline would’ve been much worse had Jimmy Maurer not stood tall in goal and cleaned up a lot of the messes.