Up to 10 players will miss the round of 16 tie between the 16 teams that have qualified for Euro 2024. Any player who receives two bookings during the tournament will be banned for one match. Rodrigo, for Spain, and Rafael Leão, for Portugal, have already been suspended. UEFA is always clear in this regard and specifies it in the competition regulations, always in defense of fair play.
How does yellow card accumulation work?
A player who receives two yellow cards in different matches will be automatically suspended for the next match. That is, the accumulation of two yellow cards must complete the cycle and will be sanctioned with a match without playing, as stated in the regulations in article 54.02B. Once the first penalty has been served, if a player receives a fourth yellow card, they will also face an automatic suspension for the next match.
When and in what phase is the accumulation of yellow cards cleared?
Yellow cards accumulate until the quarterfinals. Starting with the quarterfinal tie, all players will start from scratch and Previously seen cards do not carry over to semi-finals. This average is planned to prevent a footballer from missing the final due to completing the card cycle. He could only be sanctioned for that grand final if he is sent off, either for a straight red card or for a double yellow card, in the semifinal match.
What the rules do not prevent, even though the cards are cleared once the semi-finals have been reached, is that if a footballer sees his second yellow card in the quarter-final tie he will immediately be sanctioned for the semi-final match. That previous sanction is not ‘cleaned’.
Players under warning
Among the players who, if they saw a yellow card between the round of 16 duel or in a hypothetical quarterfinal match, would be out of a match are players of the caliber of Cristiano Ronaldo, Mbappé, Güler, Donnarumma, Rüdiger, Foden or Carvajal. They are all stars of their teams and essential to their coaches’ schemes. For example, there are two sensitive absences for the round of 16: Çalhanoglu (Turkey) and Calafiori (Italy), who have been key in their teams’ qualification for the round of 16.
- Switzerland: Freuler, Ricardo Rodríguez, Widmer (suspended for the round of 16), Sierra, Ndoye, Xhaka
- Italy: Calafiori (sanctioned for the round of 16)Pellegrini, Cristante, Donnarumma, Fagioli
- Germany: Andrich, Mittelstädt, Tah (sanctioned for the round of 16), Rüdiger
- Denmark: Hjulmand (suspended for round of 16)Vestergaard, Maehle, Norgaard, Wind
- England: Gallagher, Trippier, Ghéhi, Foden
- Slovakia: Schranz, Duda
- Spain: Le Normand, Carvajal, Vivian
- Georgia: Kverkvelia, Kashia, Kochorashvili, Gvelesiani, Mekvibishvili (suspended for the round of 16)
- France: Dembélé, Mbappé, Rabiot
- Belgium: Mangala, Tielemans, Faes
- Portugal: Francisco Conceicao, Palhinha, Cristiano Ronaldo, Pedro Neto, Ruben Neves,
- Slovenia: Stojanovic, Celar, Janza (sanctioned for the round of 16)Vipotnik, Bijol
- Romania: R. Marin, M. Marin, Bancu (suspended for the round of 16)Burca, Puscas
- Netherlands: Veerman, Schouten
- Austria: Baumgartner, Danso, Mwene, Laimer, Wöber, Arnautovic, Wimmer (sanctioned for round of 16)Posch, Querfeld
- Türkiye: Çalhanoglu (suspended for the round of 16), Celik, Ayhan, Ozcan, Akaydin (sanctioned for the round of 16)Gunok, Mudur, Yuksek, Yildiz, Güler, Kokcu, Cakir
Players suspended for the round of 16: Tah, Widmer, Calafiori, Wimmer, Hjulmand, Janza, Mekvibishvili, Akaydin, Bancu and Çalhanoglu.
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