Chelsea face yet another FA rap with a £50,000 fine on the way for the yellow cards their players picked up in Sunday ill-disciplined draw with Nottingham Forest.
As reoffenders, that is double the £25,000 punishment paid by the Blues for receiving six or more cautions in last month’s trip to Bournemouth, while Marc Cucurella and Wesley Fofana are both now banned for Chelsea’s next match with Liverpool after becoming the Premier League’s first players to rack up five yellows this season.
Nicolas Jackson will hope to escape retrospective punishment for seemingly shoving Forest’s Morato in the face during one manic melee after VAR decided it was not violent conduct.
Yet both clubs could face FA charges for failing to control their players during that fracas, which was sparked by Neco Williams when he pushed Cucurella into Enzo Maresca, forcing the Chelsea head coach to fall over.
Chelsea at least finished the match with 11 men, unlike Forest, who saw James Ward-Prowse dismissed for two cynical yellows.
Chelsea face yet another FA rap with a £50,000 fine on the way for the yellow cards their players picked against Nottingham Forest
Both clubs could face FA charges for failing to control their players during a fracas
Despite having the Premier League’s worst disciplinary record, Maresca defended the spirit shown by his team as he said. ‘I like the team the way they are fighting. I like the way they are becoming a team in these kinds of things. I don’t see any problems.’
Nuno Espirito Santo added: ‘It is very hard for the players to control their emotions, very hard for us as managers. We need the referees to understand.’