Premier League Suspensions And Booking, Upcoming Key Absences

Fantasy Premier League managers are being urged to factor disciplinary absences into their transfer planning, with several Premier League players either suspended or edging closer to automatic bans due to yellow-card accumulation.

Under The FA’s disciplinary regulations, players who collect five yellow cards within their club’s first 19 league matches receive a one-match suspension. That threshold has now passed. However, players who accumulate 10 yellow cards in Premier League fixtures up to and including their side’s 32nd match will serve a two-match ban in the competition.

Yellow cards accrued in Premier League matches do not carry over into domestic cup competitions. Red cards, however, do apply across the Premier League, FA Cup and EFL Cup, with suspensions spanning all domestic competitions.

Players currently suspended

Several players will miss upcoming league fixtures due to suspensions:

• Kevin Schade (Brentford) – suspended for Gameweek 26
• Cristian Romero (Tottenham Hotspur) – suspended from Gameweeks 26 to 29
• Jean-Clair Todibo (West Ham United) – suspended for Gameweek 26

Romero’s extended absence follows disciplinary action that will rule the Tottenham defender out for four consecutive league matches.

Players close to a two-match ban

A number of players are approaching the 10-yellow-card threshold and risk a two-match suspension if they are booked again before their club’s 32nd fixture:

• Lewis Dunk (Brighton & Hove Albion) – 8 bookings
• Kyle Walker (Burnley) – 8 bookings
• Tim Iroegbunam (Everton) – 8 bookings
• Cristian Romero (Tottenham Hotspur) – 8 bookings
• André (Wolverhampton Wanderers) – 8 bookings
• João Gomes (Wolverhampton Wanderers) – 8 bookings
• Yerson Mosquera (Wolverhampton Wanderers) – 8 bookings

The concentration of Wolves players on eight bookings places the club at particular risk of further suspensions in the coming weeks.

Loan players ineligible to face parent clubs

In addition to suspensions, several loan players will be unavailable when their clubs face their parent sides later in the season:

• James Ward-Prowse (Burnley, from West Ham United) – Gameweek 25
• Reiss Nelson (Brentford, from Arsenal) – Gameweek 26
• Jadon Sancho (Aston Villa, from Manchester United) – Gameweek 30
• Jack Grealish (Everton, from Manchester City) – Gameweek 35
• Facundo Buonanotte (Leeds United, from Brighton) – Gameweek 37
• Harvey Elliott (Aston Villa, from Liverpool) – Gameweek 37

With key fixtures approaching, managers, both in the Premier League and Fantasy Premier League, will need to monitor discipline closely as yellow-card counts continue to rise.

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