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Manchester Metropolis have a brief listing of first-team gamers which are prone to a Premier League match suspension by means of yellow card accumulation.

Pep Guardiola and his squad are persevering with to work in the direction of an enormous restoration of their type this season, having misplaced 9 matches of their final 12 throughout all competitions leaving them low in confidence, power, and hope of a profitable marketing campaign.

The most recent of these defeats got here by the hands of Aston Villa at Villa Park, with objectives from Jhon Duran and Morgan Rogers both aspect of the half-time interval placing the sport past doubt, regardless of a late aim from Phil Foden halving the deficit.

And issues could worsen by way of accessible gamers heading into the New 12 months, with two matches remaining for Manchester Metropolis on this calendar yr the place their gamers will must be on their greatest behaviour to keep away from a suspension.

As per Premier League guidelines, gamers who decide up 5 yellow playing cards within the first 19 matches of the English top-flight season are issued with a one-match ban, which means Metropolis’s journey to Leicester on December 29 is the ultimate recreation during which suspensions shall be handed out.

Past that time within the season, Premier League gamers who’re booked 10 instances within the first 32 matches of the marketing campaign are then suspended for 2 matches. However which Manchester Metropolis gamers are in danger?

Bernardo Silva is just one yellow card away from a ban, which means he should keep away from a yellow card in opposition to Everton and Leicester Metropolis if he needs to swerve round a one-match suspension within the Premier League.

Moreover, all of Manuel Akanji, Ruben Dias, Mateo Kovavic, Jack Grealish, Rico Lewis and Ederson are all on three yellow playing cards and as such must keep away from two yellow playing cards within the golf equipment subsequent two matches in the event that they want to not decide up a one-match ban.

Manchester Metropolis will kick-off the New 12 months in Premier League motion as they’re scheduled to welcome West Ham United to the Etihad Stadium in a conventional 3PM kick-off slot on Saturday 4 January.

That outing shall be adopted by a mouthwatering FA Cup third spherical conflict with League Two aspect Salford Metropolis, whereas the primary month of the yr will even deliver large video games within the UEFA Champions League.

Metropolis know that ought to they want to safe themselves a play-off match for a spot within the last-16 of the competitors, they have to take at the least three factors from their subsequent two outings away to Paris Saint-Germain and at dwelling to Membership Brugge on the finish of the month.