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| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Dynamo | 15 | D2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8/15 | 3-2 |
| Cincinnati | 15 | L1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 8/15 | 8-9 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 3 finished meetings (2023-02-26 – 2026-01-28) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-28 | Houston Dynamo | 1-1 | Cincinnati |
| 2025-01-30 | Cincinnati | 1-1 | Houston Dynamo |
| 2023-02-26 | Cincinnati | 2-1 | Houston Dynamo |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Houston Dynamo | 2 | 23 | 40 | 4 | WWLDD | 12 | -10 |
| Cincinnati | 6 | 22 | 31 | -2 | WDWDL | 12 | -6 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2026-09-20
The table reads 2nd (Houston Dynamo, 40 pts) against 6th (Cincinnati, 31 pts), 9 points apart. Recent form tells a different story for Houston Dynamo: only 12th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 2nd. Against a league average of 1.6 goals per team per game, Houston Dynamo run at 1.3 scored and 1.13 conceded, Cincinnati at 2.23 and 2.32.
Shell Energy Stadium stages the fixture, a ground that holds 22,039.
