It has been a productive international window for several of the Leeds United players who went away with their respective countries over the November break.
Leeds have had 12 first team players on international duty over the last couple of weeks, more than any other club in the Championship.
Leeds‘ quartet of Welshman picked up four points across their two matches to help win Nations League Group B4 and earn promotion to the top division, with Joe Rodon earning his 50th cap.
Junior Firpo made history with the Dominican Republic as back-to-back 6-1 wins over Bermuda saw them qualify for next year’s Gold Cup for the first time ever.
Mateo Joseph, Ao Tanaka and Brenden Aaronson all also had success with Spain U21s, Japan and USA respectively.
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Liverpool youngster Stefan Bajcetic makes Mateo Joseph claim
Joseph may have struggled to find the net regularly for Leeds this season but he has had no such issues for Spain U21s.
After scoring the winner in Spain’s 2-1 win over Scotland in September, Joseph then netted a first half hattrick against Kazakhstan last month.
With Samu Aghehowa in the senior squad this time around, Joseph was handed back-to-back starts and continued his fine international form with another goal in the win over Denmark.
Joseph posted on Instagram earlier today following the culmination of another successful camp with Spain U21s.
He said: “Great week with Spain. Happy to have contributed with a goal and to continue adding. Thanks for the support always.”
Clearly Joseph is making a big impression in his home country, and among his Spanish teammates, including Liverpool youngster Stefan Bajcetic, who responded to his post with the comment, ‘top’.
Joseph needs to transfer Spain form into Leeds
Joseph has only started one of Leeds’ last seven matches in the Championship, but that did come against QPR just before the break.
Again, Joseph was pretty solid with his overall play, but saw very little in the way of clear-cut chances. His replacement Joel Piroe then came off the bench to score.
However, even after Piroe’s goal, Daniel Farke certainly shouldn’t be changing anything in attack, with that clearly the Dutchman’s best role.
Farke needs to make use of the confidence Joseph may have gathered from scoring for Spain U21s, and taking him straight out of the side will only negatively affect that.
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