The reason why Casemiro will receive a four-game ban

The former Real Madrid player Casemirowho is now enrolled in the ranks of ManUnited, saw this Sunday, in the match between the Old Trafford team and Southampton, a straight red card that it costs, as ManUnited themselves announced on Sunday, four parties of punishment.

And this, despite the fact that the Premier’s regulations contemplate punishment three games a ‘serious misconduct’ or ‘violent behaviour’, concepts in which Casemiro’s action against Carlos Alcaraz can be classified. Let’s remember that the referee of the clash initially advised the Brazilian with a yellow but after reviewing the action in VAR He showed her the direct red.

The reason why the former Real Madrid player, who has not been sent off with a straight red card in his entire league career at the Bernabéu, will lose four games and not three can be seen in the league itself Basic regulations.

“Players expelled the second time for a time they will be suspended a extra party (…). Players sent off for the third time will be suspended for two additional games and so on”, explains a document distributed by the Premier to the players and collecting all the information: from the penalties to which they were exposed, attitudes that must follow , everything related to anti-doping and social drugs, the risk of participating in bets, using social networks, etc.

Casemiro saw the first straight red card in the Premiership (and in his sporting career), on February 4, for grabbing a Crystal Palace player by the neck during a brawl involving players from both teams.

On that occasion, he received a three-game sanction that now, as a second straight red card, will be four. And he will fulfill them before him fulham in the Cup and matches Newcastle, Brentford and Everton in the Premier League.