{"id":454930,"date":"2026-02-07T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454930\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:33:08","slug":"cristian-romero-banned-for-4-games-after-man-utd-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/454930\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristian Romero Banned For 4 Games After Man Utd Red Card"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the match between Manchester United<\/a> and Tottenham<\/a> looked finely poised heading into the break on Saturday afternoon, Cristian Romero\u2019s<\/a> week went from bad to worse after he was shown a straight red card for a studs-up challenge on Casemiro. After going off ill at Manchester City a week earlier and then calling out the club hierarchy on social media for a lack of investment in the January transfer window, he now faces a four-match ban.<\/p>\n

Thomas Frank’s side headed to Old Trafford for a lunchtime kick-off in hopes of derailing the Red Devils’ three-match winning run in the Premier League<\/a>, while getting their new year up and running with a first victory of 2026 themselves. But their captain’s unnecessary moment of madness was quickly followed up by an opener by Bryan Mbeumo from a well-worked set-piece.<\/p>\n

That 10-minute period put Michael Carrick and co in the driving seat at halftime, and the Lilywhites will have it all to do in the second-half. But while many will be confused as to why Romero’s punishment for a red card is harsher than others seen in the 2025\/26 campaign so far, an explanation can be found in the rulebook.<\/p>\n

Why Cristian Romero Will Miss Four Matches Instead of Three<\/p>\n

\"Cristian<\/p>\n

The reason Romero misses four matches instead of three – meaning he will also miss the north London derby against Arsenal on February 22 – is that it was his second red card of the season, which triggers an automatic additional one-match suspension under Premier League disciplinary rules, as outlined in the FA’s regulations for multiple dismissals.<\/p>\n

Romero had previously been shown a straight red card against Liverpool earlier in the campaign after kicking out at Ibrahima Konate, and was later given an additional one-match ban for his behaviour after the dismissal. The defender will have been suspended for nine matches this campaign as a result, having also served a suspension for yellow-card accumulation, once he completes this latest ban.<\/p>\n

Romero’s Eventful Week Comes Crashing Down on Him<\/p>\n

\"Cristian<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old’s dismissal – his sixth across all competitions for Tottenham – and subsequent suspension comes days after Romero appeared to criticise Tottenham’s hierarchy amid the club’s injury crisis.<\/p>\n

Romero had called it “disgraceful” that Tottenham had only 11 fit senior players for their match against Man City last weekend, a perceived dig at the club’s lack of activity in the transfer window. Thomas Frank said the matter had been dealt with internally. Last month, Romero was not punished for a cryptic post later amended about those people at the club who, “show up when things are going well, to tell a few lies.”<\/p>\n

Karma or coincidence, Romero’s latest red card comes at the worst possible time for Tottenham, who straddle just three points above 17th-placed Nottingham Forest before this weekend’s action is concluded – the same position they finished under Ange Postecoglou last term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the match between Manchester United and Tottenham looked finely poised heading into the break on Saturday afternoon,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-454930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}