West Ham defender at risk of suspension ahead of Leicester City and Arsenal clashes

West Ham United defender Thilo Kehrer is at risk of suffering a one-match suspension after picking up his fourth Premier League booking of the season on Sunday evening.

The German defender was booked in the closing stages of the Hammers ’ 1-0 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford after pulling back Marcus Rashford from running on the counter attack, his fourth league booking of the season.

That means that Kehrer is one booking away from receiving a one-match suspension and will have to avoid being booked in all of West Ham’s next six league games to avoid a suspension.

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Next up in the league for West Ham is a meeting with London rivals Crystal Palace on Sunday, meaning he is at risk of missing the meeting with Leicester City six days later if he is booked in that game.

Before the end of the 19th game, where a ban for five yellow cards is scrapped and changed to ten yellow cards. Those games before the freshhold changes are against Leicester (November 12), Arsenal (December 26), Brentford (December 30), Leeds United (January 4), Wolverhampton Wanderers (January 14). A fifth booking in the 19th game against Wolves would ban players for the meeting with Everton on January 21.

Here is a full list of West Ham players and how many yellow cards they are on heading into a London derby with Palace.

Premier League yellow cards -

Thilo Kehrer – 4

Aaron Cresswell, Declan Rice and Gianluca Scamacca – 2

Emerson, Lucas Paqueta, Michail Antonio, Tomas Soucek and Vladimir Coufal – 1

Players in the Europa Conference League receive a one-match ban when receiving three yellow cards in the competition.

Centre-back Angelo Ogbonna and central midfielder Flynn Downes have been booked twice so far in the group stage, with ten other players getting booked once.

Europa Conference League yellow cards -

Angelo Ogbonna and Flynn Downes – 2

Manuel Lanzini, Vladimir Coufal, Emerson, Gianluca Scamacca, Conor Coventry, Aaron Cresswell, Tomas Soucek, Lucas Paqueta, Ben Johnson, Maxwel Cornet - 1

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