Sporting Kansas City snapped a five-game winless streak, thanks in large part to a 16-year-old.
Gianluca Busio, the third-youngest player to start an MLS game, assisted on the game’s only goal from Diego Rubio as SKC picked up a 1-0 road win over the shorthanded Houston Dynamoin a chippy Western Conference matchup between slumping sides.
The Dynamo played down one man for most of the game after Alejandro Fuenmayor was shown a straight red card in the 14th minute for a clattering hit on Busio’s head. Houston manager Wilmer Cabrera was then ejected at halftime for arguing with referee Chris Penso in the tunnel, and the Dynamo went down two more men deep in stoppage time when Darwin Ceren was shown his second yellow and then a red on Alberth Elis.