Pre/PBP/Post Houston Dynamo v. FC Dallas, Saturday, June 16

Who: Houston Dynamo v. FC Dallas
When: Saturday, June 16 @ 6:30 PM CDT (NOTE: this is a change from the original schedule)
Where: BBVA Compass Stadium
Records: FC Dallas (3-8-4) 13 PTS, 8th in WEST
Houston Dynamo (4-4-4) 16 PTS, 7th in EAST
TV: ESPN2
Radio: 790/850

This is the only regular season meeting between Houston and Dallas this year. The Dynamo retain El Capitan with a win or tie.

FC Dallas is winless in their last 10 matches (including a home loss in the Open Cup to the Charlotte Eagles of the PDL) going 0-7-3 since April 21. They have scored 7 goals in that span while allowing 17. FCD is 0-6-1 on the road so far this year.

Houston is 2-1-2 in the last five league matches with 6 goals scored and 6 allowed. Overall, the Dynamo are 2-3-2 in all contests in that span with a total of 9 goals allowed in those games. Houston is 2-0-1 at home in league games this year so far.

The game is expected to sell out.

FCD @ Houston, all-time:

05/06/06 HOU 4-3 FCD
08/12/06 HOU 1-0 FCD
08/23/06 HOU 3-0 FCD, U.S. Open Cup
06/03/07 HOU 2-1 FCD
08/19/07 HOU 1-0 FCD
11/02/07 HOU 4-1 FCD (a.e.t.), MLS Playoffs
04/06/08 HOU 3-3 FCD
06/26/08 HOU 1-1 FCD
05/09/09 HOU 1-0 FCD
05/05/10 HOU 0-1 FCD
05/28/11 HOU 2-2 FCD

That's 7-1-3 all-time with 22 goals scored and 12 allowed.

I just realized I was a little premature in that statement. The Dynamo retain the cannon with a win. A tie would open the possibility of a tie-breaker based on a playoff game this fall. That looks pretty unlikely but still possible at this point.

Here are the current criteria for winning or retaining the cannon:

1. Head-to-head regular season series
2. Head-to-head goal differential in regular season series
3. Result of playoff series (if applicable)
4. Result of CONCACAF Champions league series (if applicable)
5. Result of SuperLiga playoff match (if applicable)
6. Result of SuperLiga group match (if applicable)
7. Result of U.S. Open Cup match (if applicable)
8. Holder retains trophy

El Capitan series over the years, W-L-T:

2006: Houston takes the cannon, 2-1-1
2007: Houston keeps the cannon, 3-0-1
2008: FCD takes the cannon, 0-0-3, on the away goal tie-breaker, 4:2, in place at the time
2009: Houston re-takes the cannon, 2-1-0
2010: FCD reclaims it, 1-0-1
2011: Houston wins the cannon back, 1-0-1

Year-by-year, Houston leads 4-2.
All-time cannon series games, Houston leads 8-3-7.

An All-Texas MLS Cup. His will be done.

All I know for sure about this one is, There is a Flying Spaghetti Monster watching over us! A 4:30 kick-off this week would have well and truly sucked!!

LOL. I'd expect nothing less from our Yankee neighbors up north.

http://www.fcdallas.com/video/2012/06/12/fc-dallas-wants-el-capitan-back

Dude, that was pretty funny.

"OMG its so humid here, I miss you!" Bahahaha. That was good, but ******** FC Dull ass.

So do we get Cam, Hainault, Watson, and Taylor back for this game?

I don't see why we wouldn't.

The player has 24 hours to return to the team (48 hours if outside the confederation). So they should be back by tonight and resume activity tomorrow. Now, whether they are rested to play will be up to Dom.

No PKs after fulltime? So we'll have to wait 4 months? Maybe 5?

Huh?

????

Dallas has cannon envy

This from MLS' KickOff this morning. Looks like Blas Perez could be in doubt for FCD Saturday.

that video goes into the EPIC fail category

I wouldn't say that, I'm dumb I know but I sort of like it. I like it when teams does silly stuff like that. It won't help them get the cannon though.

Blas Perez Tweeted:

I'm looking for a single ticket, anybody have one available? I really just need it to go through the door, I won't be sitting on it since my two little ones can share a seat.

Another attempt to be funny a.k.a DUMBASS video from the Waldo FC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA9r1p7OMaA

I think to create good karma for the game, we should donate at least as many oranges that they wasted to a food bank or the neighboring Star of Hope.

What I find more humerous is how bad FC Dallas is playing and they find time to make these dumb videos. As season ticket holder or just a fan for that matter I would be pissed to see my team screwing off like this when then SUCK.

Or maybe they did this on the suggestion of their Sports Psychologist.

I think this is just an act of desperate organization. They are horrible, the prodigal Llama is slumping, they have no fans thus no revenue. They are going to have to move that franchise.

Last year our FO played along with their lameness. Hopefully they don't do ny thing dumb this year.