Jo\u00e3o Pedro\u2019s sending off against Benfica will not prevent him from playing for Chelsea in the Premier League at the weekend. The Brazilian\u2019s dismissal came after he collected two yellow cards in the Champions League tie, which means the resulting suspension applies only to the club\u2019s next European fixture.<\/p>\n
Chelsea have had disciplinary issues in recent matches. In the Premier League outings against Manchester United and Brentford, Robert S\u00e1nchez and Trevoh Chalobah were both dismissed and the Blues took zero points from a possible six. S\u00e1nchez\u2019s scything down of Bryan Mbeumo left Chelsea a player short after five minutes at Old Trafford; they trailed 2\u20130 before Casemiro\u2019s second booking evened up the personnel. Then Chalobah\u2019s red turned a 1\u20130 lead into a 3\u20131 defeat against Brentford.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Facundo Buonanotte had already avoided further sanction, and what had been a drab Champions League contest, marked by Jos\u00e9 Mourinho\u2019s Stamford Bridge return, looked to be winding down. In the sixth minute of stoppage time Jo\u00e3o Pedro stuck his boot towards the face of Leandro Barreiro. The absence of contact meant a booking would have sufficed, but Pedro had been booked within a minute of his second-half introduction. That produced another red card for Chelsea, the third in four games for the club.<\/p>\n
Because the dismissal resulted from two yellow cards, the suspension affects Europe only. Pedro will therefore be available for Saturday\u2019s Premier League meeting with Liverpool in west London. He will be suspended for Chelsea\u2019s league phase encounter against Ajax on Oct. 22, and is due to return to Champions League action, barring injury, in Gameweek 4 when Maresca\u2019s squad travel to Qarabag in Azerbaijan on Bonfire Night.<\/p>\n
Chelsea are also unable to appeal Pedro\u2019s suspension due to the fact that he received two yellow cards. It was the third sending off of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pedro\u2019s Champions League red carries a European-only ban, so he remains available for Liverpool this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,175],"tags":[1033,1047,1089],"class_list":["post-3453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-liverpool","tag-brazilian-football","tag-champions-league","tag-chelsea-struggles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.weplayfpl.com\/news-articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}