Lewis Dunk will serve a two-match suspension next his straight red card for dissent in Brighton’s 3-2 victory about Nottingham Forest on Saturday.
The Seagulls skipper objected to Anthony Taylor’s final decision to award the house facet a penalty immediately after reviewing the incident at the pitchside keep track of.
The match formal at first confirmed the defender a yellow card for his questioning but immediately upgraded it to a purple pursuing language he deemed personally abusive. It has not been exposed what was specifically said by Dunk.
As a end result of his sending off, the England worldwide will skip Brighton’s up coming two Premier League outings versus Chelsea and Brentford.
Dunk will be offered to return for Roberto De Zerbi’s facet when their welcome Burnley to the Amex on December 9.
Lewis Dunk will serve a two-match ban following his straight purple card for dissent from Forest
The defender utilized language referee Anthony Taylor deemed to be individually abusive
Mail Activity has launched a marketing campaign to prevent the abuse of referees at all degrees of the game
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Roberto De Zerbi’s aspect clung on for a much-need victory but the Brighton manager will now be with no his skipper for video games from Chelsea and Brentford
The 32-yr-outdated is the initially Premier League player to get his marching orders for dissent through a video game in 15 years, adhering to Newcastle’s Alan Smith, who was sent off in the Magpies’ 6- defeat to Manchester United in 2008.
The flare-up comes amid Mail Sport’s marketing campaign titled ‘Stop Abusing Referees’, which seeks to glow a light-weight on the intense conduct officers facial area.
Controversial VAR calls have been at the heart of the discussion throughout the period and referees have been subjected to unstinting abuse.
A staggering 10,000 referees have still left football in the last 5 many years and a surge of shameful antics by best-flight professionals – be it Mikel Arteta, Mauricio Pochettino, Jurgen Klopp, or Marco Silva – has magnified how rotten illustrations are established at the prime.
At the weekend, Morgan Gibbs-White converted the house side’s penalty just after Dunk’s dismissal but Forest were unable to locate an equaliser in the 20 minutes that remained.
Steve Cooper’s side had opened the scoring a few minutes into the tie by Anthony Elanga.
Having said that, Evan Ferguson bagged an equaliser and Joao Pedro scored either aspect of the crack to give Brighton ample daylight and assistance the absent side assert their very first league acquire in two months.