The Wanderers aim to strengthen their climb towards an A-League Men finals spot when they face Adelaide for a second time in a week as they welcome Carl Veart\u2019s side to Commbank Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Wanderers secured a come-from-behind 2-1 win on Wednesday with Cancar notching the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That nearly didn\u2019t happen given Rudan said he considered substituting the 20-year-old defender after he suffered a torrid time coping with Adelaide\u2019s front line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cancar, who only returned to Australia from Croatia due to the pandemic, has been one of the standouts under Rudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the Wanderers boss wants the energetic defender to keep his feet on the ground and continue to build.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI gave him his debut and he dealt with that and players always have challenges and go through ups and downs,\u201d Rudan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s about making sure they do things well and not getting carried away with what people say about them because I see it so often in this country that a player plays two or three games and they\u2019re the next big superstar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rudan has been credited with resuscitating a season that looked to be destined for failure when he took over from axed coach Carl Robinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under his tenure the Wanderers have yet to win back-to-back games but have shown signs of improvement to sit on the cusp of a finals berth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The biggest indicator that they have turned a corner was the manner in which they fought back to beat Adelaide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rudan has said in the past that his side struggled to respond well after conceding but he believes they have undergone a change in mentality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was impressive; we were away from home and a goal down and finding a way to win having not played well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t our best performance in the first half but you can\u2019t take away that grit and determination to get back into it and then find the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAdelaide score more goals after 80 minutes than any other team and we held them out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe key is to stay grounded and do what we did in the second half from the outset.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":69135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[379],"tags":[],"competition":[],"acf":{"match_card_embed_league":null,"match_card_embed_club":null,"match_card_embed_match":false,"match_card_embed_disable":false,"auto_publish_updates":true,"reference_article":null,"article_featured_video":null,"article_featured_video_tagline":"","article_byline":"George Clarke","article_media_type":"news","article_video":"","gallery":"","shared_ffa_source":"keepup","shared_hide_in_app":false,"article_player":[20316],"article_team":[21262],"article_competition":"","article_match":"","credit":"AAP ","related_articles":"","push_to_social":false,"priority":1,"sport":"football","language":"en","private_content":false,"access_level":[],"article_id":"69134","app_featured_image":null,"article_content_group":"news"},"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/news\/rudan-wanting-to-keep-goal-hero-grounded\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Rudan wanting to keep goal hero grounded","url":"http:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/news\/rudan-wanting-to-keep-goal-hero-grounded\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/news\/rudan-wanting-to-keep-goal-hero-grounded\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/03\/Untitled-14.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/03\/Untitled-14.jpg"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"jcsaszar"}],"creator":["jcsaszar"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Western Sydney Wanderers","logo":"https:\/\/wswanderersfc.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/cropped-Western_Sydney_Wanderers_FC-2.png"},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2022-03-19T21:33:27Z","datePublished":"2022-03-19T21:33:27Z","dateModified":"2023-11-09T02:39:32Z"},"rendered":"