The Houston Dynamo will try to move above the playoff line when they visit Nashville SC on Saturday.

Only five points separate the eighth-place Colorado Rapids and 12th-place Real Salt Lake in the crowded Western Conference table. Houston (9-13-9, 36 points) is in 10th place, a point behind FC Dallas for the ninth and final postseason spot.

A six-match (0-3-3) winless drought in regular-season play almost torpedoed the Dynamo's playoff hopes, but the club has since gone 2-1-1 in its last four matches. Houston's last outing was one of its best overall efforts of the season, a 1-0 home win over the Portland Timbers last Saturday.

Dynamo head coach Ben Olsen views his club as "the underdogs" against Nashville, "and that's just okay with us. It's a game at a time right now... (we'll) slug i

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