St. Louis CITY SC gets a shot at another first on Tuesday night when it hosts Houston Dynamo in the U.S. Open Cup quarterfinal at Energizer Park. Kickoff is set for 7:00 p.m. CT, and the match marks CITY SC’s first trip to this stage of the competition.
The quarterfinal arrives four days after CITY SC drew 1-1 with D.C. United at Audi Field in MLS play. Chris Durkin scored his second goal of the season and eighth in his MLS career in that match, and the result left the overall series between the clubs at 0-0-2. Durkin began his professional career with D.C. United and faced his boyhood club for the first time since being traded to St. Louis in 2024.
Tuesday’s match will be available live on CBS Sports Plus and Paramount+, as every CITY SC U.S. Open Cup match this season has been. Josh Eastern and Ricky Lopez-Espin will call the Paramount+ English stream, while KYKY Y98.1 FM will carry the English radio broadcast with Joey Zanaboni and Dale Schilly. KXOK 102.9 FM will air the Spanish broadcast, with Santiago Beltran and Hector Vega on the call.
St. Louis reached the quarterfinal by beating Chicago Fire FC 2-1 on April 29 at SeatGeek Stadium, the club’s first road win at Chicago Fire across all competitions. Anton Salétros opened the scoring for Chicago in the 64th minute before Tomas Totland equalized in the 71st minute and Eduard Löwen finished the comeback in the 78th. It was Totland’s first career U.S. Open Cup goal and Löwen’s second.
The matchup also brings a familiar opponent to Energizer Park. St. Louis and Houston have met eight previous times across all competitions, with CITY SC holding a 3-3-2 edge. Houston took one-goal wins over St. Louis in June and August of last year, but CITY SC has scored 11 goals in the series and has been harder to beat at home, where it owns a 3-1-0 record against the Dynamo and has scored 10 goals in four matches at Energizer Park.
Houston enters after opening its Open Cup run with a 4-1 home win over USL Championship side El Paso Locomotive in the Round of 32 and then beating Louisville City FC 2-1 in the next round. Erik Sviatchenko and Ezequiel Ponce scored in that win over Louisville City FC. The Dynamo are also coming off a 1-0 MLS victory over the Vancouver Whitecaps FC, sealed by a stoppage-time goal from Guilherme Santos.
Santos leads Houston with seven goals and five assists, and the club sits in sixth place in the Western Conference with 21 points and a 7-6-0 record. But its 2-4-0 road mark suggests this quarterfinal will ask a different question than the home games that carried it here. For St. Louis, the chance is simple: turn a strong cup run into a result at home, and move one step closer to the trophy that now feels within reach.
