Crysencio Summerville avoids suspension after Leeds United v Middlesbrough
Crysencio Summerville has avoided a ban after the cumulative yellow card suspensions were reset after the 19th game of the season as Leeds United faced Middlesbrough.
Summerville had been sat on four yellow cards since the 1-0 victory against Leicester on 3 November, meaning if he had picked up another booking in that time, he would have been suspended.
The Championship clash against Middlesbrough was the final game in which the Dutchman had to avoid a yellow card, and he did, thus avoiding a one-match ban as a result.
Leeds Live journalist Beren Cross shared the update via his Twitter page [4 December], writing: “A footnote from Saturday, but the cumulative yellow-card suspensions have now reset.
“Summerville had been walking the tightrope since Leicester on four bookings and would have missed Blackburn with a yellow against Boro.”
A collective sigh of relief
Given Summerville’s importance to Daniel Farke’s side in an attacking sense, the whole squad can now breathe a sigh of relief as he will no longer be walking the tightrope of a possible suspension and can continue to play with freedom in his game.
Not that the looming possibility of a ban would really have been on his mind or altered the way he played the game, but naturally there would be an element of caution around his game particularly going into challenges which he may otherwise have made.
This will be a weight off his shoulders and hopefully give him slightly more freedom to play his natural game which has seen him shine so brightly at Elland Road since the Championship season began.
The depth out wide is probably the strongest part of Farke’s squad, with the likes of Dan James, Jaidon Anthony, Wilfried Gnonto and Ian Poveda all available to step in should Summerville have been banned, but they needn’t worry now.
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