Lining up without Rodrigo in a match Leeds United must win for any chance of surviving relegation will have fingers pointing at Sam Allardyce. The head coach chose to keep the club’s top scorer on the field last weekend as he limped around with a plantar fascia on fire at West Ham United.
With Patrick Bamford already removed from the fray with a hamstring injury which may rule him out of this weekend too, Allardyce felt it was worth harming Rodrigo’s issue further. The 68-year-old felt Leeds were in the game until the hosts’ third goal and wanted to keep his best goal scorer on the field for that one sniff he may have needed.
Asked if he had considered taking the striker off for fear of damaging the plantar fascia further, Allardyce said: “Yeah, but we had to because we were always in the game.
