Liverpool have avoided a potential disciplinary headache ahead of the season’s second Premier League yellow card amnesty.
Both Wataru Endo and Darwin Nunez went into Sunday’s visit to Manchester United aware that a ninth booking would place them in danger of missing a chunk of the title run-in with the Reds challenging Arsenal and Manchester City for the championship.
Players who accrue 10 bookings in the Premier League by the 32nd game are handed an automatic two-game suspension.
Endo had picked up a eighth league caution of the season in the 2-1 home win over Brighton last week while Nunez has been in a similar situation for two months having most recently been booked in the top flight in the Anfield triumph over Burnley in February.
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However, that both Endo and Nunez avoided being yellow-carded at Old Trafford means that, with Liverpool playing their 32nd league game of the campaign at home to Crystal Palace this coming Sunday, they cannot reach the 10-booking mark until after the latest amnesty. They will, of course, be suspended regardless should they be sent off in the fixture.
Following Sunday’s game, the final Premier League amnesty will apply, with a three-match ban imposed for anyone given 15 bookings before the end of the season.
Alexis Mac Allister is the only Liverpool player this season to have been suspended due to the totting-up procedure after serving a one-match ban in November having received five cautions before the first amnesty in January. Mac Allister had been been sent off on his home debut against Bournemouth, only for the decision to be reversed and the card retrospectively downgraded to a yellow.
Four other Liverpool players have served a suspension this season. Virgil van Dijk was banned for one game after a red card at Newcastle in August and then slapped with a further one-match censure for his subsequent reaction towards referee John Brooks. Curtis Jones and Diogo Jota were handed three-match and one-match suspensions respectively for their red cards at Tottenham Hotspur the following month, while Ibrahima Konate sat out one game after being dismissed at Arsenal in February.
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