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Liverpool trio susceptible to being banned after PSG Champions League conflict

Three Liverpool gamers face potential Champions League suspension forward of the quarter-final second leg.

Ryan Gravenberch is considered one of three Liverpool gamers susceptible to a suspension. (Picture: Getty) This text comprises affiliate hyperlinks, we are going to obtain a fee on any gross sales we generate from it. Study extra

Three Liverpool gamers are at risk of receiving a Champions League suspension because the Reds look to edge nearer to the semi-finals tonight. Virgil van Dijk and Ryan Gravenberch each obtained bookings through the spherical of 16 encounter towards Galatasaray final month, becoming a member of Curtis Jones in having collected two yellow playing cards within the competitors this season.

This implies the trio would face a ban from a possible quarter-final second leg ought to they obtain a warning when Liverpool face Paris Saint-Germain on the Parc des Princes tonight. Conor Bradley additionally carries two bookings within the Champions League however has been sidelined for the rest of the season with a knee harm sustained in early January.

Competitors rules state that any participant who accumulates three yellow playing cards – or any subsequent odd variety of bookings – from the league stage onwards will probably be suspended for the next match. A reprieve solely comes upon completion of the quarter-finals when all yellow card totals are cleaned.

Paris Saint-Germain even have two gamers sitting on two yellow playing cards, with each Nuno Mendes and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia only one reserving away from being dominated out of the second leg at Anfield subsequent Tuesday.

His deputy, Wataru Endo, is injured, and a change would pressure considered one of Curtis Jones, if he isn’t suspended, Alexis Mac Allister or Dominik Szoboszlai to play a deeper position rather than Gravenberch.

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