Three key Manchester City players are just a yellow card away from missing the Blues’ trip to Brentford next week. Ruben Dias, Rodri and Bernardo Silva have all totted up four bookings in the season so far, and under the Premier League rules, face an automatic one-match ban if they make it five before the halfway point of the season - which falls on Boxing Day against Leicester.
City lost Joao Cancelo to the same rule last week, when his yellow card against Wolves saw him ruled out of the 7-0 midweek win over Leeds.
The clash with the Foxes will be City’s 19th game of the season, and that is the cut-off point for the five booking rule - after Sunday you can only be suspended for accumulative bookings by picking up ten up to the 32nd
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