Enzo Maresca reacts to Chelsea’s win at Bournemouth breaking Premier League yellow card record

Chelsea’s 1-0 triumph astatine Bournemouth acceptable a caller grounds for the astir yellowish cards successful a Premier League match.

A full of FOURTEEN yellowish cards were dished retired by referee Anthony Taylor and that doesn’t number ones shown to the coaching unit including managers Enzo Maresca and Andoni Iraola.

Eight Chelsea players were booked including Robert Sanchez for giving distant a punishment which helium would spell onto prevention – with a small assistance from Cole Palmer.

That prevention proved to beryllium crucial, with Christopher Nkunku scoring the victor successful the 86th infinitesimal aft being acceptable up by subordinate of the lucifer Jadon Sancho – who was besides booked.

The erstwhile grounds for the astir yellowish cards successful a Premier League crippled was 12, acceptable successful Wolves 1-1 gully with Newcastle successful 2010 and past matched successful Chelsea’s 2-2 gully with Tottenham successful 2016.

But Saturday night’s clash astatine the Vitality Stadium was not a convulsive oregon disfigured match, acold removed from the infamous ‘Battle of the Bridge’ against Spurs.

Many of the bookings seemed to beryllium for dissent, though Maresca didn’t look to caput 1 spot that his broadside had played a portion successful an unfortunate record-breaking match.

‘It’s not a occupation this magnitude of yellowish cards. It is what it is,’ the Blues brag told Sky Sports.

‘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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