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51ºÚÁÏ City SC had a one-goal lead and a one-man advantage on FC Dallas in the first half on Saturday night and even with that going for it, couldn’t get a win.

City SC did snap its three-game losing streak, but now has a four-game winless streak after playing Dallas to a 1-1 tie at Energizer Park. City SC had chance after chance after chance, and then a few more, but ran into two red-hot Dallas goalkeepers who stopped almost everything that came their way. City SC spent much of the second half in and around Dallas’ box and couldn’t get anything to go in. City SC had a man advantage from the 16th minute on but got only one goal despite taking 39 shots, 14 of which were on goal.

City SC did stay out of last place in the league with the result and the Los Angeles Galaxy 1-1 tie with Houston, which leaves City SC two points ahead of last, though the Galaxy have one more game to play than City SC does.

Celio Pompeu scored to give City SC a lead, but Dallas tied it three minutes later and then the game got almost comical as backup keeper Jacob Jackson made acrobatic save after acrobatic save on just about player on City SC. City SC had an expected goals total of 4.8. Of those 39 shots, 12 were off target and 13 were blocked by defenders.

The game swung in City SC’s favor in the 16th minute, when Klauss, who was pressing all night, took the ball from Dallas defender Lalas Abubakar, which left him alone on goalkeeper Michael Collodi. The keeper slid to get the ball and Klauss tried to jump over him and went down, with referee Allen Chapman giving Collodi a red card for DOGSO, soccer shorthand for denial of an obvious goal-scoring opportunity since there was no defender behind him.

Since the foul happened just outside the box, there was no penalty kick, but Dallas had to sub in its backup keeper, Jacob Jackson, and would be playing a man down for the remainder of the game. Eduard Lowen’s ensuing free kick went into the wall, and when he got the rebound, he put that into the wall as well.

Collodi had made a couple solid saves for Dallas before his ejection, and Jackson got started with a good one too. But City SC finally broke through in the 32nd minute, with Pompeu getting his second goal of the season on a shot from about 25 yards out than Jackson couldn’t get to.

The lead was short-lived. In the 35th minute, City SC was trying to play the ball out from deep in its own end, but Chris Durkin’s pass was picked off and it took two passes before Dallas’ Petar Musa scored from a tight angle to tie the game.

Elsewhere, City SC forward Sangbin Jeong came off the bench and played the final seven minutes of South Korea’s 2-0 win over the United States on Saturday in Harrison, New Jersey. It’s the second cap for Jeong,