The first match in Houston Dynamo history without Dominic Kinnear or Owen Coyle as head coach ended in a 1-1 draw with the Vancouver Whitecaps. Assistant coach Wade Barrett—acting as interim manager after Coyle was let go this week—praised the team's performance in the wake of adversity:
"The game works out the way the game works out," Barrett said, via the Dynamo's official website. "I was proud of the way that the guys really stuck to the game plan. That was the one thing we asked from them. We asked discipline and organization.