{"id":419307,"date":"2026-05-09T09:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419307\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T09:44:08","slug":"football-auckland-fc-draw-1-1-in-semifinal-first-leg-against-adelaide-in-the-city-of-sails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/419307\/","title":{"rendered":"Football: Auckland FC draw 1-1 in semifinal first leg against Adelaide in the City of Sails"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Auckland<\/p>\n

\nAuckland FC celebrate their first goal against Adelaide United
\nPhoto: www.photosport.nz\n<\/p>\n

Auckland FC could not completely capitalise on home advantage in the first leg of the A-League semifinals against Adelaide United with a 1-1 draw on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Back at home for the second week in a row, after surviving an elimination final last week<\/a>, Auckland goalkeeper Michael Woud was once again one of the heroes early in the match.<\/p>\n

Woud made three crucial saves in the first 13 minutes to keep Auckland in the game as both teams were not shy to shoot as the rain came down.<\/p>\n

Lachie Brook opened the scoring for Auckland when he found the back of the net with a strike from the top of the box into the bottom corner in the 24th minute as he capitalised on a teammates miss-hit.<\/p>\n

Both teams had several more attempts on goal but Auckland took the 1-0 lead into halftime.<\/p>\n

Two injuries in the first 10 minutes of the second half rocked Auckland, with Guillermo May going off with a lower leg injury followed quickly after by Cam Howieson who was struck on the face.<\/p>\n

Adelaide levelled the score just after the hour mark through Harry Crawford.<\/p>\n

Auckland and Adelaide have now played out draws in four of their five matches across two seasons.<\/p>\n

With a short turnaround the second semifinal is in Adelaide on Friday.<\/p>\n

See how the match unfolded here:<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero<\/a>, a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auckland FC celebrate their first goal against Adelaide United Photo: www.photosport.nz Auckland FC could not completely capitalise on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[48,47,42,43,49,46,44,45,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-419307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=419307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}