The Houston Dynamo have lost five times in 12 games, all of them on the road. MLS teams aren’t supposed to be good on the road, but not getting a single point from five road games is really, really bad. They’re still second in the Western Conference thanks solely to their exploits at home, but with six of their next nine games away, they’re going to have to figure out what to do about this at some point in the near future. If not, they will quickly be overtaken.
Wilmer Cabrera went to Atlanta on Saturday night with a new plan: stack as many players behind the ball as possible and pray to the soccer gods that a young and talented United attack wouldn’t break them down.