Errors need to be cut out by a Leeds United team conceding too many goals, but not only in defence and goalkeeper. Rodrigo, who has contributed more goals than anyone to the Whites’ cause this term, places those concessions at his feet and the midfielders’ too.
Only Erling Haaland, Harry Kane and Ivan Toney have scored more in the Premier League than Rodrigo this season. United’s 15th-place position would be a hefty sight worse without his penalty-box finishing.
The Spain international’s two strikes against Tottenham Hotspur, in the club’s last competitive fixture, followed by a capitulation from 3-2 to 4-3 down sum up the problems being addressed. Rodrigo, not selected for World Cup duty, has not missed a beat of Jesse Marsch’s mid-season programme up to now.
