There are 10 games left for the Houston Dynamo in the MLS regular season – a nice, round number that means it’s as good a time as any to start taking a look around the league every week to look at the games that impact the standings as the club looks to return to the MLS Cup Playoffs for the first time since 2013.
Heading into this weekend’s matches, the Dynamo are in a three-way tie for first place in the Western Conference but claim the top spot via tiebreakers. As a reminder, the top six teams in each conference reach the playoffs, and the top two seeds get byes into the conference semifinals while seeds three through six play in a one match knockout round.