Tuesday 6 December 2016

Aguero gets 4-match ban for tackle on David Luiz

                                                                                           (C)Reuters

Sergio Aguero was added to the Football Association's list of suspensions Monday, with the Argentinian receiving a four-match ban for his melee-inciting tackle on David Luiz in Saturday's 3-1 home defeat to Chelsea. The Manchester City striker was given an additional game on top of the standard punishment for a red card, likely since it represents his second disciplinary proceeding after his retrospective three-game suspension for elbowing West Ham United's Winston Reid in August. Fernandinho's treatment of Cesc Fabregas in the fracas that followed on the weekend has resulted in a three-match suspension.
This means City's punished pair will sit out upcoming Premier League meetings with Leicester City, Watford, and title rival Arsenal. Aguero will then miss Boxing Day's trip to Hull City before he joins Fernandinho back in contention for the New Year's Eve wrangle in Liverpool.
"It's a pity it finished like this, I don't like that," Pep Guardiola said of the injury-time scuffle. "I apologise for what happened."
Aguero's dangerous, two-footed, high challenge on David Luiz sparked a brawl that eventually involved several members from both City and Chelsea shoving one another. Nathaniel Chalobah ran into the tumult and pushed Aguero over - becoming a candidate for retrospective action from the FA himself - while Fabregas' soft slap on Fernandinho resulted in the latter grabbing him by the throat while the Spaniard stepped backward over the advertising hoardings. The timing is far from ideal for Guardiola: Saturday's loss cast City four points adrift of leader Chelsea after 14 games, and the season's now running into its busy festive period.
Source: TheScore

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