Chelsea and Bournemouth hit with fines after record-breaking yellow card fest

Chelsea and Bournemouth picked up a record-breaking 14 yellowish cards betwixt them successful their Premier League clash connected Saturday and it volition outgo them some a fewer quid.

The Blues won the lucifer 1-0 acknowledgment to a precocious Christopher Nkunku goal, but they were shown an unthinkable 8 yellowish cards successful the process.

The location broadside picked up six bookings, with the 14 successful full a Premier League grounds connected a precise engaged time for referee Anthony Taylor.

That really wasn’t adjacent the afloat full of yellowish cards shown arsenic the coaching unit were besides successful blistery h2o with the officials, including a looking for Blues brag Enzo Maresca.

The Daily Mail study that the aggregate indiscretions volition outgo the sides, with a £25,000 good incoming for some the Cherries and the Blues. The fines travel for sides picking up six oregon much cards.

Maresca did not look bothered by the fig of cards flashed by the referee connected Saturday night, telling Sky Sports: ‘It’s not a occupation this magnitude of yellowish cards. It is what it is.

‘I complained astir a foul connected Wesley Fofana which for maine was rather wide but it tin happen. Eight yellowish cards astir apt due to the fact that these benignant of games are astir duels and combat and this tin happen.

‘Sometimes the crippled demands the mode you person to behave.’

Iraola seemed to instrumentality a antithetic presumption but refused to spell into detail, though helium did accidental helium did not deliberation it was an ‘aggressive oregon convulsive shot match’.

The Cherries manager said: ‘I volition not speech astir the referee. I person been talking and it is not moving truthful I person determine present I volition effort the other and spot what happens.’

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