Dallas gets jump on Houston
Clarence Goodson scored an unassisted goal in the 23rd minute and FC Dallas beat Houston, 1-0, Saturday night in Frisco in the first of their two-game Major League Soccer playoff series.
The second game of the aggregate-goal Western Conference semifinal series will be Friday in Houston, where the Dynamo had two wins in a 3-0-1 regular-season record against Dallas.
The goal was set up by a throw-in from the right side by Adrian Serioux. The pass from 30 yards bounced off defender Ryan Cochrane and to Goodson.
Dallas goalie Dario Sala had four saves for his first playoff shutout.
New England 0, New York 0 -- Jon Conway made three saves for New York and Matt Reis stopped five shots for New England at East Rutherford, N.J., in the first game of a two-game goal-aggregate series.
The Red Bulls, who last beat the Revolution in September 2005 and are 0-6-3 against them since, had more scoring chances but could not convert them.
Their best opportunities came in the fifth minute, when Francis Doe had a tough angle shot that was stopped by Reis, and in the 17th minute, when Jozy Altidore sent a hard left-footed shot over the crossbar.
