Adelaide saved by Barcelona trick: Gombau Coach Josep Gombau says he reached into his Barcelona bag of tricks to deliver Adelaide United a last-minute A-League triumph. The Reds coach says the match-winning goal against Wellington Phoenix on Saturday came from a tactic employed by Barcelona, where he was a youth team coach. With scores locked at 1-1, Gombau sent on Dylan McGowan - not in his usual central defensive post, but as a striker. And with seconds left to play, McGowan headed to Sergio Cirio who scored the sealer in the 94th minute of the Coopers Stadium clash. "We don't have another striker with (Bruce) Djite's injury and it's something that in the last minutes at Barcelona we do a lot," Gombau said. A central defender is normally good in the air, good heading. And in the last minutes if you are winning or losing you can cross balls and maybe a header can put the ball in. It's not the player, it's the concept. We put the balls in and we try to head. I say to McGowan, you need to do this, this is your job: stay with the central defenders and when the ball comes there, try to head - and it worked. After three games in eight days, Gombau welcomed a week's rest before next Sunday's away fixture against Central Coast. He expects frontman Djite to miss another week with a hamstring strain but said star playmaker Marcelo Carrusca would press for selection despite being substituted with an ankle injury against the Phoenix. "It's not so serious," he said of Carrusca. Now we have a long week and this for us will be good, we have until Sunday. We can rest, we can recover players.