{"id":1928871,"date":"2026-08-21T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T04:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928871"},"modified":"2026-08-21T01:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:44:01","slug":"duke-earns-physical-win-2-1-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1928871","title":{"rendered":"Duke Earns Physical Win, 2-1, in Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ari Racaj scores a goal against Seton Hall\" src=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/common\/controls\/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&#038;image_path=\/images\/2026\/8\/21\/msoc_duke_seton_hall_ledonne_20260820-24.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DURHAM, N.C. &#8211; In a match that featured 33 combined fouls and nine total cautions, Duke men&#8217;s soccer emerged with a 2-1 victory over Seton Hall in the 2026 season opener. The Blue Devils (1-0) fell behind early after the Pirates (0-1) found the back of the net in the fifth minute, but Duke equalized in the 38th minute and started the second half quickly with a goal in the 51st.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goduke.com\/news\/2026\/8\/20\/mens-soccer-duke-earns-physical-win-2-1-in-season-opener\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURHAM, N.C. &#8211; In a match that featured 33 combined fouls and nine total cautions, Duke men&#8217;s soccer emerged with a 2-1 victory over Seton Hall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":1928872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1928871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-duke-blue-devils","wpcat-82-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1928871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1928873,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928871\/revisions\/1928873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1928871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1928871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1928871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}