“We’re going to bring everything”: Houston Dynamo FC and FC Dallas ready for Texas Derby | MLSSoccer.com

Houston come into Saturday because the defending El Capitan holders after incomes 5 factors from the perimeters’ three matches in 2021, after Dallas had taken the distinction in six of the earlier eight seasons.

However the Dynamo additionally go to 11 years faraway from their final win at Toyota Park, a 1-0 win in September 2011 determined by now-FC Cincinnati defender Geoff Cameron’s 87th-minute winner. The house aspect is unbeaten within the final 15 conferences between these Lonestar State rivals.

For Nagamura, the more moderen success outweighs any trepidation concerning the journey north.

“We have to be calm and picked up, be sure that we put together,” Nagamura stated. “The one factor that I can say is that we have to take delight in being and desirous to be one of the best group in Texas. For me, I believe it is a massive rivalry, however the rivalry is exterior the white traces. Contained in the white traces – you persist, it’s preparation, it is work. Our mentality is to all the time be one of the best on the sphere and that is how we will method the sport.”