Two Liverpool players face disciplinary threat after Premier League decisions
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Liverpool Echo IconSportFootballLiverpool FCLiverpool have a couple of players walking a disciplinary tightrope with Premier League and Champions League participation under threatLiverpool's desperate first-half performance in the dreary 3-0 defeat at Manchester City on Sunday afternoon was bad enough. But there were two reasons to regret the second half at the Etihad that has now left two players walking a disciplinary tightrope.Both Conor Bradley and Dominik Szoboszlai picked up their fourth Premier League bookings of the campaign and now stand just one yellow card away from having to serve a one-match suspension.Players who accrue five bookings inside the opening 19 Premier League games are handed a one-match ban.
The amnesty then changes to a two-match suspension for reaching 10 bookings inside 32 games, and a three-game ban for totalling 15 at any point in the campaign.READ MORE: Wayne Rooney makes major admission after controversial Liverpool comments over Virgil van DijkREAD MORE: Liverpool 15-year-old winger scores again but Academy suffers double setbackWith Liverpool having played only 11 league games this season, it means both Bradley and Szoboszlai will have to negotiate another eight such fixtures without a booking to avoid serving a ban.Milos Kerkez is next in line in terms of Premier League cautions for the Reds with three.Bradley is also on the brink of a suspension in the Champions League having been booked twice in the first four games of the league stage of the competition.UEFA rules dictate three bookings along with every second booking after reaching that threshold - meaning the fifth, seventh, ninth and so on - will result in a one-match suspension.The amnesty for yellow cards only comes into force until after the quarter-finals have been completed, meaning Bradley has potentially another 10 games - the remaining four group matches, along with both legs of possible play-off, round of 16 and last eight clashes - before the bookings are no longer counted.As well as six bookings in 14 appearances for Liverpool this season, Bradley has also picked up two in three World Cup qualifying outings for Northern Ireland which saw him suspended for last month's 1-0 home defeat to Germany.For the latest Liverpool FC news and breaking news, visit liverpoolecho.co.uk/all-about/liverpool-fc. Get all the big headlines, pictures, analysis, opinion and video on the stories that matter to you.Follow us on X (formerly Twitter) @LivEchoLFC - the official Liverpool ECHO LFC Twitter account - for all the latest LFC news as it happens in real time.We're also on FaceookLiverpoolEchoLFC - your must-see LFC news, features, videos and pictures throughout the day from the Liverpool ECHO.Listen to our podcasts by searching for 'Blood Red' wherever you get your podcasts.Sign up for one of the Liverpool Echo's free daily and weekly newsletters on Liverpool by clicking here.