ETSU vs. Clemson Match Highlights | 2026 ACC Men's Soccer

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AI GeneratedClemson secured a hard-fought 2-0 victory over the East Tennessee State University (ETSU) Buccaneers. After a physical and tense match characterized by several controversial refereeing decisions and challenges, Clemson capitalized on late-game momentum to score two quick goals in the second half, sealing the win.
And 1-0 win, as we already said.
And Garcia getting a start in goal,
so it's well outside the box.
And a good feed into the box.
Shot going to stay high and wide right.
Trying to go to that upper-right corner.
Also on a foul call.
Sevian goes down.
Frank's got him from behind.
Left foot to the cross.
Diving save.
Headed back out front.
Touch.
Deflected.
Stays in bounds.
Keeper comes out one more time.
Chipped up.
Backside.
And all there to take it two-handed.
Delmote.
I think we might see a challenge in that moment.
We could be having a look at that,
but I don't know how much Delmote
knew about the first one.
Right.
But a terrific save on the second shot,
and then the third fell for him comfortably.
Let's have a look here.
Let's see.
All the ball now has got to be inside.
I don't know there's enough there.
Yeah, I don't think that's the reviewable moment.
I think it's, I believe it was Sevian.
Looked like he kind of came through the back of Sevian
for the ball there.
Rather, it was the goalkeeper or the defender.
It was tough to tell.
But there was some contact.
I would think if they're going to look at anything,
that's what they're going to look at.
Yeah, I've always kind of thought,
no matter what the sport, when you go to replay,
look at the entirety of the play.
A still frame is always tough to make a call from.
Trouble here the opposite way.
Two on one.
Good feed.
Open opportunity.
Out comes Garcia.
And tripped up and down.
Foul called.
Penalty shot coming.
That quickly turned the other way.
And Elliott Edwards got tripped up.
In the box by Garcia.
His simulation.
He's saying there was no contact.
You're not calling that.
Wow.
Not only is it no penalty, he's saying.
I think we're going to get a replay of this.
And they're going to come take a look at this.
I think he's saying he saw no contact and it was a dive
and he booked him for it.
Is that they will rescind the yellow.
So, no yellow, but the call stands.
Cross it.
That's a good cross there.
Flipped the field.
Ball going to be covered up by Garcia.
Up front.
Gian again serves it short.
Headed out.
Here we go, just changing the point of attack.
That's a good driven ball to try and see
if he can get on the run there.
Again, ball skips through.
That may have been partially touched.
East Tennessee State defender.
Clemson will control.
Play it back in.
Header comes out front.
Nice save.
Clemson couldn't control now.
Transfer Gian does get a foot on it.
He'll go 1-B-1.
They're going to push it back to him.
No, there's a trip inside the box.
No whistle, no call.
Play on.
And Clemson will come up with a steal
and then a foul call there.
Coach Newton is calling for a challenge here
to have a look at that.
And what's interesting is two things developed there, right?
It was like the first initial challenge
on what he perceives as a penalty call,
but also looks like there was a bit of taunting after the fact.
So it's going to be interesting to see what happens here
when he has a look at this.
So I believe that Clemson is going to challenge here.
See Mike Newton.
Well, if you flash back to-
They had one first half, remember, lost.
And if you flash back to the Furman game
where Coach Newton used both of his challenges too,
that one actually worked out for him
because they did get the penalty from that challenge.
So we'll see if he can strike gold here twice.
And that turned out to be the first goal of that game
in the first half.
And then all of a sudden they came out second half
and put four on the board in 17 minutes.
It was just a call. It was a touch away.
There is contact.
And he is going away from gold.
It's just a little bit of a clumsy challenge there,
but he is certainly in the penalty area.
And he does leave that leg in.
Okay, from the position of the referee initially,
he's right there, Don.
Yeah. I don't know what he doesn't see in the moment.
You can see him there. Yeah.
Right portion of the screen looking right at it.
The only thing I can think is perhaps he felt like
Sivian extended his leg in that moment to draw the contact,
but there's contact nonetheless.
But it's one of those moments as a defender,
the attacker is going away from goal.
You do not need to make any contact.
But there's the taunting at the end.
So, see the reaction of Mike Noonan there,
I think, tells you what the call is going to be.
No penalty.
Lola. Whoa. Good, hard tackle.
That's clean.
Another crushing tackle there.
Yes, it is. Physicality of this game
has also maybe been something we haven't talked a lot about
tonight, but there you go.
Lola slow getting up after that.
Manrod coming from behind at their first.
It's been a physical contest, huh?
Shot in, headed out.
Another good delivery from Jean.
Yeah.
They've gotten better the first few.
You know, it's the cardinal sin of a corner kick.
A set piece is you can't let the first defender cut it out,
but the quality of his service has gotten better
as the game has gone on.
Serve it in, left footed.
Header was there.
It's going to go out of bounds.
Goal kick.
No, corner, excuse me.
A row to corner.
It's coming up the 12th corner of the match here for Clemson.
I think Duncan Wilson actually got a flick onto that.
That one did serve it short.
Lola, nope.
And now numbers quickly the other way,
but bad pass taken away,
and Clemson will just play it all the way back.
Garcia kind of one-timed it out.
Jean jumps on the ball.
This is trouble.
Cuts, looking for that left footed shot.
Well defended from behind, though.
Yeah, it was excellent play on the backside there by Martinez.
Got body in front of him, almost like a hockey defenseman
dropped in front of the puck.
I know it's better for Clemson in that counterattack moment,
really going forward with pace.
Magnuson, open Lola, space.
Chips it across, header, save, header, in.
I believe that was Duncan Wilson that pounced on the last ball.
Looked like he also got the initial header.
Clemson comes through on the attack one more time.
Wilson off the wing.
Left footed shot, diving save.
Loose out front, still loose, shot, goal.
Goes Clemson.
Well, we just talked about it, right?
Yes.
They feed off the energy of this crowd.
Well, this is where the game can really change,
and Garcia way out of the box,
but able to get enough of that just to relieve the pressures.
He gets it to the sideline, quick throw in.
This is where the game can all of a sudden
become very different,
as ETSU is going to press to get forward and pull a goal back.
This will be just their second corner of the match.
Yeah. Clemson with 12.
Settled. That was big.
Lucas Magnuson winning that one.
Throw in on the sideline.
Ball deflected out of bounds by Sevien.
Loose ball out front. Garcia makes himself big.
Deflects it. Centered.
And that's cleared back out.
Oh, goodness. 28 teams from all over the country,
and one of them is usually the Houston Cougars...
Okay. ...who are coached by Carl Lewis,
arguably the greatest Olympian in U.S. history.
Outside shot deflected.
Think about that man won four gold medals
in four different Olympians.
Wow.
And in four separate events.
Outside. Oh, ball almost deflected,
but came behind Clemson attacker.
Now ball in. They'll try to center it.
That'll be pushed out.
She dropped down to 28 seconds left.
Center it through.
Ball will be cleared.
And one last maybe attack for Clemson out front.
Get a shot off before this ends.
They're going to try, and it'll become a corner,
but there won't be enough time left.
Six seconds and counting, and Clemson going to come away
with a hard-fought 2-0 victory here tonight
over the Buccaneers of East Tennessee State.
Back-to-back goals quickly in the second half.
Yeah, and I think that's an important result for Clemson
to build on that momentum from that Furman match.
