Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Bournemouth was etched into the Premier League document books after seeing essentially the most yellow playing cards in a single recreation within the competitors’s historical past.
Referee Anthony Taylor dished out a whopping 14 cautions in a recreation which few would describe as ill-tempered, reserving eight Chelsea gamers and displaying yellows to 6 in Bournemouth shirts.
That whole doesn’t embrace yellow playing cards proven to each managers, Enzo Maresca and Andoni Iraola, for dissent.
The earlier document of 13 yellow playing cards had stood for nearly a whole calendar 12 months. Tottenham Hotspur’s 2-1 win over Sheffield United on September 16, 2023, featured 13 bookings by referee Peter Bankes.
Chelsea boss Maresca insisted he had no subject with the overall of yellow playing cards proven after the sport.
“It is not an issue this quantity of yellow playing cards,” he advised Sky Sports activities. “It’s what it’s.
“I complained a few foul on Wesley Fofana which for me was fairly clear however it may possibly occur. Eight yellow playing cards in all probability as a result of these type of video games are about duels and combat and this could occur.
“Typically the sport calls for the way in which you must behave.”
