Palmer to miss Liverpool cup tie, not Man Utd league game, after red card
Cole Palmer's one-match ban for his red card against Tottenham will apply to Chelsea's EFL Cup trip to Liverpool rather than the Premier League game against Manchester United.
Cole Palmer will be available for Chelsea's Premier League match against Manchester United on Saturday despite being sent off in the club's previous league fixture, because his one-match suspension will instead be served in the EFL Cup.
Palmer received two yellow cards in the second half of Chelsea's defeat by Tottenham Hotspur. The first came for an off-the-ball incident involving Spurs' Mateus Fernandes, and the second for a foul on Conor Gallagher. The dismissal triggered a one-match ban.
Under the rules explained by BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team, red card suspensions are served across domestic competitions rather than being confined to the competition where the card was received. As a result, Palmer will sit out Chelsea's EFL Cup fourth-round tie away at Liverpool on Wednesday night.
By contrast, suspensions that arise from accumulating yellow cards over a campaign are served in the competition in which they are received. That distinction explains why a league dismissal does not automatically rule a player out of the next league fixture.
The outcome means Chelsea will be without the England playmaker for the trip to Anfield but can call on him against United at Stamford Bridge three days after the cup tie.
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