On a personal level, it would have to go down as one of the more costly yellow cards of Pedro Neto’s career.
Had the Portuguese not picked up a fifth booking of the season during last weekend’s 4-3 victory over Tottenham, he would surely have been spared a 7,000-mile Kazakhstani sojourn and joined the rest of Enzo Maresca’s regulars in Cobham’s comparatively mild climes preparing to face Brentford. Instead, suspended for Sunday's west London derby, it was onto an eight-hour flight and off into the cold.
