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Eddie Howe has commented on the “big blow” his facet have been dealt following Dan Burn’s fifth yellow card of the season and subsequent suspension.
Burn was controversially carded in final Sunday’s 3-1 win in opposition to Nottingham Forest, with it coming simply seconds after Forest captain Ryan Yates escaped any punishment for a nasty elbow on Tino Livramento.
“It’s very uncommon you see me run to the fourth official.” stated the gaffer. “However I believed Tino had been elbowed within the face and it was a transparent free-kick, wasn’t given, and Dan paid the value for that basically.”
The incident took Burn to 5 playing cards in 11 video games, ensuing within the defender being suspended for the primary recreation again after the worldwide break: a house conflict in opposition to West Ham every week on Monday. Nevertheless, Burn isn’t the one Magazine who was near a suspension, with the pair of Joelinton and Fabian Schar each on 4 yellows and one reserving away from the
On Burn’s ban and the 2 others in danger, Howe stated: “We knew we had been going to lose Dan at some stage, and probably Fab and Joey are in the identical place. I’m in all probability happy we’re not dropping all of them on the identical time. It will likely be an enormous blow to lose Dan, he’s finished very properly this season.”
Each Schar and Joelinton sit on 4 yellow playing cards, with one other eight league video games to return earlier than the yellow playing cards ‘reset’ and a 10-yellow rule comes into play.
Followers will probably be hoping the Swiss and Brazilian stars will each following within the footsteps of Bruno Guimaraes final season, who by some means prevented a two-game ban regardless of enjoying a big chunk of the season only a single card away from suspension.
