{"id":28199,"date":"2026-04-13T09:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/premier-league-who-is-one-card-away-from-being-suspended\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:22:14","slug":"premier-league-who-is-one-card-away-from-being-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/premier-league-who-is-one-card-away-from-being-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League: Who is one card away from being suspended?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Yerson Mosquera and Joelinton have become the latest players to receive a two-match ban for accumulating 10 yellow cards in the 2025-26 Premier League season.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The most recent round of Premier League matches was the final weekend for which the threshold for an automatic ban was 10 yellow cards, as the number required is now reset to 15 for game weeks 33-38.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Should a player reach a total of 15 yellow cards for the season in the remaining games, they will be handed a three-match ban that can carry over into the 2026-27 Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/wolverhampton-wanderers\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Wolverhampton Wanderers<\/a> defender Mosquera was booked during his side&#8217;s 4-0 loss at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/west-ham-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">West Ham<\/a>, meaning he reached the 32-match 10-card threshold for disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/newcastle-united\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Newcastle United<\/a> midfielder Joelinton received his 10th yellow of the season during his side&#8217;s 2-1 loss at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/crystal-palace\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Crystal Palace<\/a>, also triggering the automatic two-match ban.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/teams\/brighton-and-hove-albion\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Brighton<\/a>&#8216;s Lewis Dunk is set to sit out the second game of his yellow card ban this week, having reached the threshold for disciplinary action for the second time this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defender had already been issued a one-match ban for receiving five yellows before 3 January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Until that date, players received a one-match ban for being shown five yellow cards,  but after 19 games, the ban moved to 10 yellow cards &#8211; albeit with a harsher punishment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Total yellow cards received before 3 January were carried into the next phase of games, and the same applies now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While it my be statistically unlikely, there are currently five players for whom it is mathematically possible to reach 15 yellow cards and a three-match suspension.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cx25x2r5r32o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yerson Mosquera and Joelinton have become the latest players to receive a two-match ban for accumulating 10 yellow cards in the 2025-26 Premier League season. The most recent round of Premier League matches was the final weekend for which the threshold for an automatic ban was 10 yellow cards, as the number required is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28201,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28199\/revisions\/28201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}