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On Friday night, St. Louis City SC players and coaches gathered in the team room in their hotel in Plano, Texas, to watch City2, the club’s developmental squad, play back in St. Louis.

The first team may have been in Texas to play Dallas on Saturday, but it was also well-represented in the City2 game, with five first-teamers — Eduard Lowen, Tomas Ostrak, Fallou Fall, Kyle Hiebert and Tyson Pearce — starting for City2. All except Hiebert are coming back from absences for injury or personal matters.

JEFFERSON CITY — With two months to go before Missouri expects to see an influx of international visitors for World Cup matches in Kansas City, state and federal officials said Monday they are prepared for soccer fans to have a safe experience.

Following a roundtable discussion in the governor’s office that included Andrew Bailey, the former Missouri attorney general who now is co-deputy director of the FBI, officials said they are deploying hundreds of personnel and dedicating millions of dollars for public safety purposes during the monthlong event.

From the very beginning, St. Louis City SC’s trips to Dallas have been fraught with misadventure. When City SC went there for the first time in 2023, the game was interrupted by storms after 50 minutes, and the team had to return a month later to play the final 40 minutes.

That game, like the others played at Toyota Park in Frisco, Texas, ended the same way: with City SC losing and being shut out in the process.

St. Louis City SC takes its first points streak of the season — a win and a tie in its past two games — on the road again to play FC Dallas on Saturday in Frisco, Texas.

After getting just one point from its first four games, with three straight losses after a tie in its first game, City SC has four points in its past two, including its first road point of the season. Here are some things to know about City SC’s meeting with Dallas, a team it hasn’t beaten since the club’s first season.