Liverpool and Galatasaray each have players who’re working the chance of a Champions League ban on Wednesday night
Liverpool’s Hugo Ekitike, Galatasaray’s Mario Lemina, Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk, Galatasaray’s Abdulkerim Bardakci, Galatasaray’s Davinson Sanchez and Liverpool’s Ibrahima Konate (left-right). Nick Potts/PA Wire.(Image: PA)
Three Liverpool players run the chance of choosing up a Champions League suspension when the Reds goal to safe place within the quarter-finals this night.
Virgil van Dijk and Ryan Gravenberch each picked up bookings within the 1-0 spherical of 16 first leg defeat at Galatasaray in Istanbul final week to affix Curtis Jones on having accrued two yellow playing cards within the competitors this season.
It means the trio can be banned from a possible quarter-final first leg ought to they choose up a warning when the teams meet in the Anfield return.
Conor Bradley additionally has two bookings within the Champions League however has been dominated out for the remainder of the season with a knee drawback suffered in early January.
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Competition guidelines dictate any participant who receives three yellow playing cards – or any subsequent odd variety of bookings – from the league stage onwards is banned for the subsequent sport. An amnesty solely arrives on completion of the quarter-finals when all yellow card totals expire.
As effectively as having supporters banned by UEFA for the sport at Anfield following incidents within the play-off match at Juventus final month, Galatasaray can be lacking suspended centre-back Davison Sanchez after he picked up a 3rd reserving of the competitors in opposition to Liverpool final week.
The Turkish aspect have a bunch of players one warning away from a ban. Goalkeeper Ugurcan Cakir, defenders Ismail Jackobs and Abdulkerim Bardakci and forwards Roland Sallai and Victor Osimhen have all been cautioned twice within the competitors this season for Galatasaray, whereas January mortgage signing Noa Lang was booked twice for mother or father membership Napoli.
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