{"id":396000,"date":"2025-09-04T01:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396000\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:30:18","slug":"leeds-united-news-joe-rodon-injury-update-after-wales-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396000\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds United News: Joe Rodon injury update after Wales withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsallover.com\/tag\/leeds-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leeds United<\/a> centre-back <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leedsallover.com\/tag\/joe-rodon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Rodon<\/a> was part of the Wales squad for this weekend\u2019s international fixtures, but has pulled out due to injury.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The international break this weekend comes at a potentially ideal time for United after seeing Ethan Ampadu and Ao Tanaka suffer setbacks in August.<\/p>\n<p>However, there\u2019s always the worry that further setbacks will follow during these international fixtures, though, something Leeds and Daniel Farke are no strangers to.<\/p>\n<p>    Most Read on LeedsAllOver<\/p>\n<p>Leeds United\u2019s Joe Rodon pulls out of Wales duty with worrying injury \u2013 clarity given on timescale<\/p>\n<p>Of the international contingent, three have headed out for Wales duty \u2013 those being Karl Darlow, Joe Rodon and Dan James, while out-on-loan midfielder Charlie Crew is present in the senior group too.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2024-10-14T190646Z_1723766496_UP1EKAE1H382G_RTRMADP_3_SOCCER-UEFANATIONS-WAL-MNE-REPORT-1024x752.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51912\"  \/>Joe Rodon has been a total mainstay at club and country level in recent years. (Action Images via Reuters\/Andrew Boyers)<\/p>\n<p>However, international duty for centre-back Rodon has been short-lived as he\u2019s set to travel back to West Yorkshire following an injury setback, confirmed on Wednesday by the Wales national team:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">DIWEDDARIAD CARFAN \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc77\udb40\udc6c\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc7f<\/p>\n<p>Tom King, Rhys Norrington-Davies and Joel Colwill have joined up with the squad, replacing Danny Ward, Jay Dasilva, Joe Rodon and Nathan Broadhead. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jAUd2po9SN\">pic.twitter.com\/jAUd2po9SN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wales \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc77\udb40\udc6c\udb40\udc73\udb40\udc7f (@Cymru) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cymru\/status\/1963202817847689349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It leaves fans concerned over the timescale of Rodon\u2019s potential setback, having again started every league game so far this season, while only missing two league fixtures since his initial loan arrival from Spurs in August 2023, playing every minute of every game otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, Leeds are expecting that Rodon\u2019s injury is not serious and should be okay to face Fulham in 10 days\u2019 time at Craven Cottage \u2013 per <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/apopey\/status\/1963204513684173149\">Adam Pope<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Rodon integral to Leeds United\u2019s solid home form to start the season<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/NEW-View-From-FA5-1024x322.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50642\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>If Leeds want to stay in the Premier League this season, they need to be rock solid in home games, and two successive clean sheets suggests they have potential to be just that.<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of it so far have been Joe Rodon and Pascal Struijk, who were both imperious against Everton and Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>It says a lot that Jaka Bijol hasn\u2019t been thrown straight into the lineup despite being a considerable coup, because the two starters have been so solid thus far.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope Rodon pulling out of international break is purely a precaution as opposed to anything problematic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Let me know your thoughts in the comments below! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>                                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United centre-back Joe Rodon was part of the Wales squad for this weekend\u2019s international fixtures, but has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-396000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115143444096625749","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}