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Nottingham Forest midfielder Ryan Yates finds himself in a precarious position regarding potential suspension, navigating a delicate disciplinary tightrope in the Premier League.
The club captain currently sits on four yellow cards after being cautioned during Saturday’s comprehensive 3-0 defeat at Arsenal. This positioning places him among 28 players league-wide at risk of an imminent one-match ban. The Premier League’s disciplinary mechanism dictates that accumulating five yellow cards within the first 19 matches triggers an automatic suspension.
The suspension protocol allows for nuanced tracking, with the sanction escalating to a two-match ban if a player receives ten bookings across their first 32 Premier League matches. Notably, cards received in cup competitions like the EFL Cup or FA Cup do not contribute to this running total.
Forest teammates Nicolas Dominguez, Elliot Anderson, and Neco Williams also find themselves in various stages of disciplinary vulnerability. Dominguez’s four cautions include one from a Carabao Cup fixture, rendering it inconsequential to league suspension calculations.
Yates has been a model of consistency, featuring in all 12 of Forest’s league matches this season and starting the previous seven. His importance to the team suggests he will likely retain his starting position when Ipswich Town visits the City Ground on Saturday.
An additional narrative layer involves club owner Evangelos Marinakis, who will be permitted to attend the upcoming match after completing a five-match stadium ban. His previous exclusion stemmed from “improper behaviour” in the tunnel area following a 1-0 loss to Fulham in September.
The impending match represents a crucial moment for both Yates’ disciplinary status and the team’s continued competitive momentum in the Premier League season.
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