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Houston Dynamo First Half Goals
In 207 MLS matches, 71.5% of Houston Dynamo’s first halves produced a goal, 22nd of the 30 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 49.3% of them and conceded in 41.5%.
What Houston Dynamo’s first halves look like
The back line is a different proposition on the road: 49.5% of away matches bring an early goal against Houston Dynamo, next to 33.7% at home. Houston Dynamo guard the first half better than they attack it: 3rd of 30 in the division for early goals conceded, 14th for scoring them.
Home advantage arrives early for Houston Dynamo: they open the scoring account before halftime in 53.8% of home matches and only 44.7% of away ones, 9.1pp between them. Houston Dynamo shade the early exchanges without dominating them: a goal of their own before the break in 49.3% of matches, one against in 41.5%.
Three-goal first halves stay scarce, 10.6% of Houston Dynamo’s matches against 15.3% for the division as a whole. An early goal in Houston Dynamo’s matches tends to be the only one: a second follows just 48% of the time, where the division manages 52%.
Every figure on this page rests on 207 completed Houston Dynamo matches over 6 seasons (2021 to 2026). That is enough to separate a clear tendency from noise, and not enough to split it much further by venue or opponent.
Houston Dynamo first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 71.5% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 34.3% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 10.6% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.21 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 49.3% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 41.5% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.64 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.57 |
| Matches counted | 207 |
| Seasons covered | 6 (2021 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 70.2% | 34.6% | 53.8% | 33.7% | 1.18 | 104 |
| Away | 72.8% | 34.0% | 44.7% | 49.5% | 1.24 | 103 |
Houston Dynamo score before halftime 53.8% of the time at home against 44.7% away, a gap of 9.1pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Houston Dynamo against MLS
| Line | Houston Dynamo | MLS | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 71.5% | 73.6% | −2.1pp |
| Over 1.5 | 34.3% | 38.4% | −4.1pp |
| Over 2.5 | 10.6% | 15.3% | −4.7pp |
Counted from 207 matches · 6 seasons · 2021 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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