{"id":202916,"date":"2025-12-21T03:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202916\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T03:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:29:07","slug":"tottenham-how-many-games-will-xavi-simons-and-cristian-romero-miss-after-liverpool-fc-red-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202916\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham: How many games will Xavi Simons and Cristian Romero miss after Liverpool FC red cards?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tottenham<\/p>\n

Simons saw his Saturday evening come to an end as early as the 33rd minute when he caught fellow Dutchman Virgil van Dijk’s Achilles with a reckless studs-up challenge.<\/p>\n

Referee John Brooks initially brandished a yellow card to Simons but upon a VAR review, it was upgraded to red and the attacking midfielder was given his marching orders.<\/p>\n

As per the Premier League<\/a> match centre, the reason for the red card was for serious foul play.<\/p>\n

A statement reads: “After VAR review, the referee overturned the original decision of yellow card to Simons and issued a red card for serious foul play. <\/p>\n

“Referee announcement: \u201cAfter review, the Tottenham No.7, with studs, catches the Liverpool player [No.4] on the calf high – it’s an act of serious foul play. My final decision is red card.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Explained: Why Xavi Simons was shown a red card against Liverpool<\/p>\n

Liverpool FC via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The red card was punished by Liverpool within ten minutes of the start of the second half as Alexander Isak and Hugo Ekitike scored to leave Spurs<\/a> with an even bigger mountain to climb.<\/p>\n

Substitute Richarlison did give Tottenham hope of securing an unlikely point when he reduced the deficit within minutes of being introduced.<\/p>\n

However, any chance of an equaliser were dashed when Romero was shown a second yellow card for kicking out at Ibrahima Konate after being fouled by the Liverpool defender.<\/p>\n

It is now back-to-back defeats for Tottenham after seemingly turning the corner under Frank with successive wins over Brighton and Slavia Prague at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n

As for Simons and Romero, they will be left to reflect on their rash decision making as both players have now played for the final time in 2025.<\/p>\n

How many games will Xavi Simons and Cristian Romero miss?<\/p>\n

Due to Simons being sent off for serious foul play, a minimum three-match ban is his punishment.<\/p>\n

Therefore the Dutchman will be unavailable for selection in Tottenham’s next fixture which is a London derby away at Crystal Palace after Christmas as well as games against Brentford and Sunderland in the new year.<\/p>\n

Romero, meanwhile, must serve a one-game ban as a result of being sent-off for two bookable offences.<\/p>\n

This means he will be back for the home game in the Premier League against the Bees on New Year’s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Simons saw his Saturday evening come to an end as early as the 33rd minute when he caught…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77596,61,60,112,10361,42210],"class_list":{"0":"post-202916","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-cristian-romero","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-spurs","13":"tag-xavi-simons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}