Last weekend, the Houston Dynamo reached a new plateau with the 4-2-3-1 formation they’d worked on at times in the past several years.
Head coach Wilmer Cabrera had explained to the media repeatedly the coaches were developing attackers, and in a 2-1 win over FC Dallas, those attackers delivered.
In that May 4 match, FC Dallas got off 622 passes, nearly twice Houston’s tally, and had 64% of the ball. Yet, they engineered just nine shots on goal, only six of which were on target. Houston, without a real foothold in possession, had 15 shots, almost double Dallas’ tally.