Sentences with phrase «only yellow cards»

Tempers began to flare as the half - time whistle loomed when both Jamie Carragher and Rafael were fortunate to escape with only yellow cards for cynical challenges.

The game could well have been changed on its head had David Luiz been sent off for a high boot when attempting an overhead kick, but he was only yellow carded, although he did get a red into the dying minutes of the match.

Tottenham striker Harry Kane might have suffered a similar fate, in Elliot's opinion, for a challenge on Florian Lejeune which left the defender on crutches but cost him only a yellow card.

Luckily, it was only a Yellow card.

The Everton man escaped with only a yellow card, though he may well have been booked earlier in the game for a similar challenge on Emre Can.

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2b honest i was impressed for our overall performance bar scoring / creating goals... but the truth was ivanovic's double boot tackle on Sanchez was a straight red card, oscars fouls were too many to only get a yellow card not to mention fabregas» hand ball in the penalty area... so as far as am concerned the referee decided this match.

Watching it appeared as if a penalty had been given, only for the official to pull his yellow card from his pocket and give it to the attacker!

Hope Coq is ok, with only other two DMs on yellow cards.

He did not use Le Quoc due to match fitness but yet refuse stubbornly to field El Neny and Flamini got yellow card after only 8 minutes!!!

lower disciplinary points total based only on yellow and red cards received in all group matches (red card = 3 points, yellow card = 1 point, expulsion for two yellow cards in one match = 3 points); 12.

Atletico Madrid midfielder Arda Turan was incredibly lucky only to get a yellow card for a bizarre incident during the Copa del Rey match against FC Barcelona.

Xhaka fragility will come when attacking players charges him with the ball enticing him on a one on one chase, his sluggest acceleration seems to let him down, he has no resolutions to these tactics when used against him other than attempt to break the opposition player fibula and hope he only get a yellow card.

What has happened to the times before when we hardly gave a monkeys about these distorted stats, all of a sudden we are looking at stats that don't tell you anything that matters, the only stats we we were shown after each games were; possession, goals scored, shots made, clear cut chances, assists, corners, yellow cards, red cards.

Chambers gets a yellow for tussling with a giant, and Adams only gets a yellow card for a choke hold?

typical, not only was that a foul but it was a yellow card offence because he purposefully pulled on the other side.

It was only moments later that Paulo Dybala committed an absolutely mindless foul to earn his second yellow card of the match — the first coming in the first half when he dove in the penalty area — and put his team down a man in addition to the confidence - breaking two away goal deficit they already were under.

I don't think this was a page out mourinho's book, only one yellow card was shown and there were no dirty fouls or meaningless whining to the referee.

Not only was their defence having a nightmare trying to deal with the pace, movement and passing fluency of the Gunners, but Chelsea could not get anything going the other way either, with Diego Costa cutting an increasingly frustrating figure up front and finally picking up a yellow card when his anger boiled over.

Mertesacker has only 2 yellow card all season and that says a lot.

The Italian suggested in his post match comments reported by Sky Sports that Mister Atkinson not only cost his side a point but all three as he felt that they were going to go on and win the match until the ref showed two yellow cards to the Leicester right back Danny Simpson.

On Wednesday, when the Gunners face Chelsea at the Emirates we will have another ref from Manchester in Anthony Taylor, who is thought to be a much more even - handed and careful whistle - blower, and we can happily say that Taylor has only been in charge of one Arsenal game this season in which we easily beat Bournemouth 3 - 0 and we got through the whole 90 minutes without sustaining even one yellow card.

For a player to make 175 tackles and only pick up three yellow cards is outstanding.

Unfortunately for the Championship side there was also another decision which the manager feels favoured the Gunners, with Mohamed Elneny only receiving a yellow card when bringing down striker Nelson Oliveira.

He brandished 14 yellow cards including a red for Jonny Heitinga, but he was actually very lenient letting Nigel De Jong commit what can only be described as a Kung - Fu kick on Xabi Alonso.

It only results in the surrounding team risking fines and yellow cards.

Juan Mata was sent off for the visitors for two yellow cards in the space of two first - half minutes, and Salomon Rondon punished the 10 men with the only goal after the break.

He only missed the games he got banned for jumping Barnes and a 1 game suspension for yellow cards.

Referee Michael Oliver went over and only brandished a yellow card for the Brazilian international, cueing the reaction on social media as opinions went flying around yet again.

Furthermore, he has only picked up five yellow cards — four fewer than skipper Steven Gerrard.

Liverpool fans after seeing David Luiz only get a yellow card just then.

I watched the capital one cup match between Liverpool and Stoke last night and there was an incident very similar to the Mertesacker vs Costa one and the ref only gave a free kick and a yellow card.

His inexperience just keeps showing, he has only played 7 - 8 Arsenal games and the yellow card count is getting ridiculous, he just tackles with unnecessarily sometimes, just goes in.

He will only get a yellow card before being subbed in the 60th minute.

Two assists on the night and four in the tournament does not even begin to explain what a massive impact the Gunner has had for Chris Coleman's side in France and I only hope for his sake that Wales can get past Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal without him after picking up a harsh yellow card for handball.

Cazorla gets 2 yellows for 2 fouls while Ivanovic done 3 fouls which I believed to be equal to Cazorlas and he only got 1 for persistant fouling, Cazorla fouled the player and a free kick was right but I believed he was too eager to give Arsenal players cards when the oppertunity came up.

Only thing that worries me is Coquelin's yellow cards.

I think the fact that Chelsea only ended up with 2 yellow cards is a joke.

The game ended in controversy after Angel Correa's rash challenge only received a yellow card from referee Clos Gomez.

Perhaps it was because the game had only just started, or perhaps he didn't see it clearly, or perhaps he thought it was an accidental clash, but whatever the reason he didn't even book him for that (although he did receive a yellow card later in the half).

Referee Dermot Gallagher only showed Ben Thatcher a yellow card at the time but the FA would later hand him an eight - match ban with a further 15 games suspended for the next two years.

Correa (6.5): Correa only played 59 minutes in the match and picked up a yellow card.

The irony of ironies, given their spate of yellow and red cards, is they had only been admitted under the fatuous Fair Play qualification rule.

The roster has only three recognized center midfielders: Ilkay Gundogan, who's never healthy; Fernandinho, who missed eight games to red / yellow - card suspension last season; and Yaya Touré, who's 34, doesn't defend, and can't play more than one game per week.

Alderwiereld has only gotten 7 yellow cards and 30 fouls.

He did only pick up one yellow card last season but given just how freely he jumps into tackles it's a mystery how he got away with it.

99 — There were only 99 seconds between Andy Carroll's first yellow card and his second at Burnley on Saturday.

We always hope for consistency from referees and no two games can be compared exactly, but anyone who saw Ross Barkley's horror tackle on Jordan Henderson recently, which Dean only thought worthy of a yellow card, can only shake their head in bewilderment in his treatment of Feghouli.

Despite being on the pitch for only 24 minutes, Xhaka committed more fouls than any other player, making a total of 6 tackles with a success rate of 0 % while also picking up a yellow card in the process.

Furthermore, Chamakh showed an ability to foul without getting called for the yellow card, committing 11 fouls and only getting carded the once.

The second half wasn't exactly as glamorous — especially after Milan went down a man following Manuel Locatelli getting his second yellow card of the night — but I guess it's only natural to ease up a little bit knowing you've got the advantage in your favor.