Arsenal have efficiently prevented any yellow-card suspensions for the rest of the Premier League season, however one Manchester Metropolis participant stays in danger.
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With 31 video games performed, it’s not potential for any Arsenal participant to hit the 10-game threshold required for a two-game suspension earlier than the edge will increase (which can be after the Bournemouth recreation).
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The closest gamers within the Arsenal squad are and , each of whom solely have 5 yellow playing cards.
That additionally means neither of them have sufficient video games remaining to hit 15 yellows earlier than the tip of the season and earn a three-match ban.
After all, Arsenal gamers may nonetheless earn bans by means of crimson playing cards, together with by means of two yellows in the identical match. However particular person yellows that don’t end in a crimson can not have an effect on the Gunners within the Premier League this season.
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The identical can’t be stated of Manchester Metropolis, with sitting on 9 yellow playing cards. Given Metropolis have solely performed 30 matches up to now (with Silva showing in all 30), Silva has two video games left to earn his tenth yellow and a two-game suspension.
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Silva must be significantly cautious of a reserving throughout Metropolis’s subsequent Premier League match in opposition to Chelsea, as a yellow would see him lacking out on the go to from Arsenal the next weekend.
If Silva is as an alternative booked in opposition to Arsenal themselves, he would miss Metropolis’s matches away to Burnley and Everton.
Metropolis’s subsequent closest gamers are and Nico Gonzalez. However given each solely have six yellows, they’ve already prevented struggling yellow-card suspensions this season.
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The potential of a two-match ban will give Silva one other factor to fret about throughout a giant match for Metropolis away to Chelsea, and the Gunners can be hoping to beat Bournemouth the day gone by and put some further stress on the sport at Stamford Bridge.