Houston Dynamo host LA Galaxy at Shell Energy Stadium on Saturday, August 15 (8:30 PM ET \/ 7:30 PM CT \/ 5:30 PM PT).<\/p>\n
Houston Dynamo have no fresh absences to account for this weekend. Guilherme should lead the line, already up to 11 goals this season with 25 of his 51 shots landing on target. Mateusz Bogusz and Jack McGlynn add the creative edge in behind \u2014 McGlynn’s 40 chances created matches Guilherme’s tally for the team’s joint-high mark \u2014 while H\u00e9ctor Herrera keeps things ticking through the middle. LA Galaxy travel with a similarly clean bill of health, leaning on Marco Reus’s 46 chances created and Gabriel Fortes Chaves’s 60 shots to try to find a way through.<\/p>\n
Houston Dynamo sit fourth in the West on 32 points, firmly inside the playoff picture, while LA Galaxy are down in 12th with 22 points and a goal difference of -5 that tells its own story. Houston’s home form has been built on tight, low-scoring nights rather than shootouts, and with Galaxy winning none of their last five (D L L D D), this reads like a cagey, low-event contest that Houston should edge by the odd goal rather than in a rout.<\/p>\n\n\n