{"id":932173,"date":"2026-10-18T03:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932173\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T03:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T03:36:07","slug":"football-news-2026-brentfords-yehor-yarmolyuk-sent-off-for-headbutt-vs-liverpool-red-card-video-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/932173\/","title":{"rendered":"Football news 2026: Brentford\u2019s Yehor Yarmolyuk sent off for headbutt vs Liverpool, red card video, Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brentford have squandered a first-half lead against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/liverpool-fc-1m1f\" class=\"sc-iRgEWu hHENWX\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liverpool<\/a>, after midfielder Yehor Yarmolyuk was sent off for a headbutt.<\/p>\n<p>Keane Lewis-Potter put the hosts ahead in the 44th minute, but his work came undone just minutes later when Yarmolyuk was given a red card.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/d66dd477f66e4205fdde870d58aa5589c2187c22d41abb053d0e8f391a52a455.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Yehor Yarmolyuk after being sent off.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n<p>During a fiery back-and-force with Liverpool\u2019s J\u00e9r\u00e9my Jacquet inside the box, Yarmolyuk pushed his head forward and after a lengthy VAR review, was given his marching orders by on-field referee Anthony Taylor.<\/p>\n<p>The incident turned the game on its head, with Victor Munoz and Alexander Isak scoring in the second half to put Liverpool ahead. <\/p>\n<p>Brentford ended the match with nine men after Vitaly Janelt got a second yellow card for a foul on Liverpool substitute Rio Ngumoha.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, table-toppers Manchester City recorded a hard-fought 3-2 win over Ipswich Town, while Chelsea beat Everton 2-0. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brentford have squandered a first-half lead against Liverpool, after midfielder Yehor Yarmolyuk was sent off for a headbutt.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":932174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-932173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=932173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/932174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=932173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=932173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=932173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}