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<\/p>\nEngland have been dealt a late injury blow<\/p>\n
11:59, 06 Feb 2026Updated 13:11, 06 Feb 2026<\/p>\n
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Immanuel Feyi-Waboso has been ruled out of the England side to face Wales(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n
England have been dealt a blow on the eve of their Six Nations<\/a> clash with Wales after prolific try-scoring wing Immanuel Feyi-Waboso was forced to pull out with a leg muscle injury.<\/p>\n Feyi-Waboso was born in Cardiff and represented Wales U18s but controversially decided to represent England at senior international level. The 23-year-old failed to complete Thursday’s training session and has been withdrawn from the matchday 23.<\/p>\n He has been replaced by Sale Sharks winger Tom Roebuck.<\/p>\n Earlier this week Feyi-Waboso said Wales were a team he really wanted to beat.<\/p>\n \u201cI just feel like it\u2019s a team I want to beat,” he said.<\/p>\n “You have a few of them, France too, but they\u2019re just a team I really want to beat,” he told the Times.<\/p>\n The British-Nigerian flyer grew up in Cardiff<\/a> and represented Wales at under-18 level before leaving the Blues pathway after failing to secure a place to study medicine at Cardiff University<\/a>, despite achieving an A* and two As at A-level.<\/p>\n He moved to Aston University and Wasps, then to Exeter Chiefs following Wasps\u2019 collapse in 2022, continuing his medical studies in Devon.<\/p>\n Wales will be relieved not to be facing Feyi-Waboso who has developed into one of the deadliest finishers in world rugby.<\/p>\n Steve Tandy will hope Wales’ back-three of Louis Rees-Zammit, Josh Adams and Ellis Mee can cause some damage in their Six Nations opener tomorrow.<\/p>\n “In an ideal world we’d have given him an extra week, but the world isn’t ideal as we know,” said England scrum coach Tom Harrison.<\/p>\n “We do a really good job of ‘what ifs’ and what might happen and combinations.<\/p>\n “Does it disrupt some plans? Yes it does, because it’s changing a player.<\/p>\n “But we’ve done everything we can to make sure the next player is ready.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have been dealt a late injury blow 11:59, 06 Feb 2026Updated 13:11, 06 Feb 2026 Immanuel Feyi-Waboso…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[7166,5903,101,56,54,55,9015],"class_list":["post-411408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-england-rugby-union-team","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wales-rugby-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}