A run of four games without a win has put the Houston Dynamo below the red line in the Western Conference going into this weekend’s matches. Sitting in seventh place, the Dynamo are tied on points with both sixth-place Real Salt Lake and eighth-place FC Dallas and just a point behind the San Jose Earthquakes in fifth place. The Dynamo do have games in hand against both San Jose and RSL – giving them a better points per game mark – but it’ll be up to the Dynamo to make those count in the weeks ahead.
Let’s take a look at the weekend’s big matches and what results the Dynamo need.