There are 35 Premier League players who need just one booking to ensure they will get the Boxing Day fixtures off. According to FA rules, players who receive five, 10, 15 and 20 bookings will be handed bans. There are various cut-off points to avoid a ban, with the first for five bookings coming in roughly three matchdays.
Until then though, any player who receives five bookings will incur a one-match ban. Suspensions from yellow cards can only be served in the competition they were picked up. The final round of Premier League games before Christmas will come across this weekend. If a player currently on four yellow cards pick up a booking in their side's match this weekend, it means they will be banned for the fixtures on Boxing Day or 27 December.
Thirty-five players from 18 of the top-flight's 20 teams could find themselves banned for Boxing Day. Leading the list is Arsenal's Gabriel Jesus, Manchester City's Bernardo Silva and Manchester United's Harry Maguire, as well as Liverpool trio Ryan Gravenberch, Ibrahima Konate and Darwin Nunez.
The Reds are joint-top when it comes to clubs with the highest number of players at risk of suspensions. The other teams with three players on four bookings are Bournemouth, Leicester, Nottingham Forest, Southampton and West Ham. Meanwhile five teams have two players who will run the risk of picking up a suspension this weekend. They are Brighton, Chelsea, Everton, Newcastle United and Wolves. Brentford and Fulham meanwhile do not have any players on four yellows.
