Adelaide United captain Craig Goodwin expresses disappointment with referee decisions in their 3-0 loss to Auckland FC in the A-League semi-final. Goodwin believes several yellow cards and a red card should have been given to Auckland FC players. 'I don't like to talk about decisions and things like that but it was very clear from the start that they should have had four yellow cards inside five or six minutes,' Goodwin said after his side's 3-0 loss at Coopers Stadium, a result that gave Auckland FC a 4-1 aggregate win and a place in next weekend's grand final. Auckland FC captain Hiroki Sakai went into the book after only two minutes, and was followed an hour later by midfielder Louis Verstraete. Adelaide midfielder got his side's only yellow card in stoppage time. In a pitchside interview with Australian broadcaster Paramount+, Australian international Goodwin said referee Daniel Elder let too much go in the opening salvos, as Auckland FC disrupted play with a succession of fouls. 'The shirt-pulling in transition and those things was a poor start in decisions from the referee which gave them the edge into imposing their physicality on the game. Inside the first two minutes, they did two which were blatant yellow cards … should have been booked. [Nando] Pijnaker should have been sent off inside 10 minutes. Other than that, their decisions are going to go your way. I can sit here and say it sounds like salty because we lost the game. End of the day, they won and deserved to win. They were better than us on the night. But I think those 10 minutes, those decisions from the referee allows them to impose themselves on the game.'