Overview
- Adelaide United overturned a deficit as Luka Jovanovic came off the bench to score twice, including a 98th-minute winner in a 2-1 victory at Melbourne City.
- One minute after a booking in a stoppage-time scuffle, he removed his shirt in celebration, which is a yellow-card offence under the Laws of the Game, and was sent off.
- The red card triggers a one-game ban that rules him out of Adelaide’s first semi-final, and he later said the celebration was not worth it.
- The win locked in second place for Adelaide and a playoff berth for next season’s expanded Asian Champions League Elite, and Jovanovic finished with 11 league goals to share the Golden Boot.
- Captain Craig Goodwin returned after 77 days out to assist the equaliser and spark the comeback, while Melbourne City lost hosting rights and must travel to face Auckland in an elimination final.