The Matildas fell 7-6 on penalties to Brazil after a 0-0 draw but there was controversy over Brazilian goalkeeper Barbara who constantly seemed to have advanced off her line.

Alleway, who took Australia’s second penalty wasn’t dwelling on the loss, but believed the referees should have done better.

“The people from the sideline should’ve been able to see that and call her out for it because we got spoken to before the tournament about penalties - how we were supposed to act in taking them and one of those was if the keeper would come off the line, they would be given a straight yellow,” Alleway told FourFourTwo.

“It clearly didn’t happen and the kick didn’t get re-taken, but that’s sport you know, referees aren’t always perfect. Now there’s no point dwelling on that, it’s not going to change the result.

“The first one I was definitely thinking ‘oh, it looks like she came out pretty far’, but I didn’t think much of it and apparently she got warned at that point. Given the angle we were at, it was too hard for us to see.”

A blunder in the first 20 seconds of the initial game against Canada (2-0) cost the Matildas a goal, and a two goal lead was given away against Germany, leaving Australia third in Group F after a 6-1 thumping over Zimbabwe in the final match.

As the post-tournament analysis began for the Matildas, the underlying message was that one win from four games at the Olympics failed to show their true potential.

In the short term though, the squad is rallying together aftr the heartbreak defeat against Brazil.

Katrina Gorry and Alanna Kennedy were both denied by Barbara in the penalty shootout which ended Australia’s gold medal dream.

“They (Gorry and Kennedy) were both very upset by it as we all were, but there was no hard feelings from anyone in the group and we all got together," she said.

"We all got around them to make sure they were okay.

“It’s no one’s fault, we could’ve scored in regular time and we had plenty of opportunities throughout the game and at the end it came down to a penalty kick which was pretty devastating.

“There’s always going to be moments in matches where you think ‘oh what if this happened’, that’s just the nature of the sport, there’s no point dwelling on things when it doesn’t change the result.

“We can think about the things we could’ve done better and what I could’ve done better, you never move on from that I guess the main thing is we’re positive from it.

“We’re a family, we’re honest, we all win together and we all lose together.”