‘Excellent’ – Dons head coach has praise for midfielder’s display in 2-2 draw at Wycombe
AFC Wimbledon head coach Mark Robinson described Jack Rudoni’s performance in the 2-2 draw with promotion-chasing Wycombe Wanderers as “excellent.”
The 20-year-old Carshalton-born midfielder opened the scoring when he turned home Ollie Palmer’s cross along the face of goal – scoring his sixth of the season.
Rudoni doubled his tally and thought he had won all three points for the South Londoners when he headed Egli Kaja’s cross past David Stockdale in the 91st minute. But Wycombe would win a penalty minutes later to condemn the Dons to a draw.
“Excellent,” said Robinson on Rudoni’s performance. “He had one or two in the first half, and he got his goal in the end. But I keep saying to all the young lads: ‘Keep doing the right thing, and the rewards will come. You relentlessly need to keep doing the right thing’.
“I give them the freedom to play, but we also have to play within a certain structure. We kind of lost our way with that a little bit, not because they’re not great lads, but sometimes they’re so keen that they come away from a structure.
“Our last five or six games, we have had our structure to play off, and they’re all reaping the rewards.”
While the Dons are now unbeaten in their previous five outings, Robinson was keen to stress: “I’m a big believer that confidence comes from your daily work. Of course results help, but we never panic.
“I had this when people would say: ‘You haven’t won games’, but we didn’t panic last year because we have a way of working where we know that results will come.
“That’s the way we are, and I’m fully confident that if we stay focused, keep our feet on the ground, keep doing what we’re doing and add layers, that they will just get better – win, lose or draw.
“You can’t be kneejerk because if we had won 2-1 today, which we could have done, there would have still been some issues which we needed to deal with.
“We have drawn 2-2, and it’s still the same – there were lots of good things and things we need to be better at.”
PICTURE: LUCY DIXON