Both aiming to bounce back from defeats last weekend, Dallas and FC Cincinnati will square off at the Toyota Stadium on Sunday. The visitors have the chance to move to the top of the Major League Soccer Eastern Conference standings with a return to winning ways at the weekend, while their hosts trail the playoff wildcard spots by five points and the top seven by seven points in the Western Conference. © Reuters Dallas return to the Toyota Stadium on Sunday with the aim of narrowing their gap up to the playoff places in the Major League Soccer Western Conference, as their search for a new permanent manager continues.
In their search for a third consecutive top-seven finish in the division, the Texan outfit endured a tough start to the 2024 campaign, heading into an early-June trip to Minnesota United on 13 points from 15 outings, and a 1-1 draw spelled the end of Nico Estevez 's tenure in the hot seat. Interim boss Peter Luccin has been able to inspire an improvement since, though, overseeing consecutive three-point hauls in his first two matches in charge as they beat St Louis City 2-0 and Minnesota United 5-3, with Petar Musa netting a hat-trick alongside goals from Jesus Ferreira and Logan Farrington in the latter. That saw the Toros head into Sunday's trip to Seattle Sounders with renewed confidence, and they took a 2-0 lead into the final 20 minutes thanks to goals from Patrickson Delgado and Musa, only to leave empty-handed in agonising fashion as Raul Ruidiaz pulled on.
