With Nick Rimando, Jake Horvath, and Connor Sparrow all out with injuries, Andrew Putna and Jake Leeker traveled with RSL to Houston leaving new signing Adam Grinwis, on loan from Orlando SC, to make his debut at goalkeeper with the Monarchs. James Moberg, Konrad Plewa, Kalen Ryden and Andrew Brody received starts in the back; Justin Portillo, Jack Blake and Sebastian Velasquez, back after missing the past two matches, in the middle; and Masta Kacher, Joshua Hear’ad and Chandler Hoffman up on top.
The injury issues and heavy schedule also meant that only Jose Hernandex was down on loan for this match from parent RSl.