{"id":672102,"date":"2026-05-15T07:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672102\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T07:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T07:23:13","slug":"a-league-semi-final-adelaide-united-host-auckland-fc-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/672102\/","title":{"rendered":"A-League semi-final: Adelaide United host Auckland FC Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adelaide United and Auckland FC will battle for the first spot in the A-League men\u2019s Grand Final on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Adelaide\u2019s Coopers Stadium will be packed to the rafters as the Reds try to build on a 1-1 draw from the first leg of the semi-final in New Zealand. <\/p>\n<p>The winner will progress to this season\u2019s decider and take on either Sydney FC or Newcastle Jets. <\/p>\n<p>That clash is also locked at 1-1 after the first leg. <\/p>\n<p>Play kicks off at 7.35pm on Friday night. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide United and Auckland FC will battle for the first spot in the A-League men\u2019s Grand Final on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[324335,11470,64,67092,63,689,32121,596,11288,276596,27013,1736,66663,677,60063,85,57712],"class_list":["post-672102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-matchidalm2025-262803","tag-adelaide-united","tag-au","tag-auckland-fc","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-elimination-final","tag-football","tag-grand-final","tag-international-business-machines-corporation","tag-melbourne-victory","tag-new-zealand","tag-newcastle-jets","tag-oceania","tag-play-kicks","tag-sports","tag-sydney-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}