Pierre-Emile Højbjergs foolish expulsion against Manchester City cost the Danish football championship almost a month without football.
In the fight against the English champions 30. december lost Wigan the head with the five minutes again and laid down Fernandinho with a fierce tackle.
the 23-year-old Wigan then straight red, and the punishment is tough: four-match ban.
The Danish Southampton-anførers misconduct was, according to the fodboldloven ‘seriously unacceptable’. His tackle brought Fernandinhos security in danger, and the kind of costs automatically three days in a corner.
however, As it was the second time this season that Pierre-Emile Højbjerg as red in the Premier League, has been given an extra day on top of, so that he in, everything is out in four games.
Wigan misses three showdown in the Premier League and Saturday’s match in the FA Cup against Derby. Yesterday, the Southampton forward, the Danish midfielder to be spilleberettiget to the fourth round, played in the weekend of 26.-27. January.
Smoking Southampton out to the club from The Championship, must. wait until the very 30. January to play football again.
meet Southampton at home on the St. Mary’s Stadium, Crystal Palace, and it happens exactly a month after Højbjergs expulsion in 1-3-defeat to Manchester City.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg came too late in his tackle on Manchester City’s Fernandinho, and then a direct red. Photo: Eddie Keogh/Ritzau Scanpix
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg is one of only two players, there have been two red cards in the Premier League this season. The other is Leicester’s Wes Morgan.
But as the dane has scored more warnings than Morgan, he of the season bisseliste in the Premier League and is already up on the six karantænedage.
He got one for his first expulsion (yellow-red) in august, to have collected five yellow cards and four for his latest red card.
Pierre-Emile Højbjerg got after the defeat to Manchester City, the criticism of his manager, Ralph Hasenhüttl, who called it disappointing that one of the most important players at his Southampton team made such a tackle at such a time.
the Dane apologized Sunday night through Southampton’s Twitter account its expulsion.
‘I would like to apologise for my red card, and to betray my teammates. Occasionally exceed my passion of my control, but I will work hard with it, and I’m focused on getting stronger back’, wrote Manchester.
#SaintsFC’s Pierre-Emile Højbjerg apologised after his dismissal against #ManCity this afternoon: pic.twitter.com/hVmUOUPych
— Southampton FC (@SouthamptonFC) 30. december 2018
He must really be sticking in the skin, when he returns. He will be shown out again, he will automatically get two extra karantænedage on top of his punishment, as he has already been shown off twice.
It will for example say that the expulsion, which under normal circumstances would give a karantænedag, triggering three the quarantine. And get Wigan straight red for a rough foul, he will get five karantænedage.
It is not in Southampton’s struggle to save the life in the Premier League.
the Team from the south coast is at the bottom, but got on Wednesday night a valuable point at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea. 0-0 played The Saints, but were relegated in the relegation zone.
Burnley won 2-1 out of the drain plug Huddersfield and passed thus Southampton in the table.
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