Sheffield Wednesday take on Cardiff City in their next Championship outing. But for the next four games, two players will have to avoid a yellow card.
Sheffield Wednesday have been quite fortunate on the suspension front this season, having had just the one red card.
Di’Shon Bernard was sent off for Sheffield Wednesday against Luton Town earlier in the season; a game Wednesday were winning but ended up losing.
In total this season, the Owls have only received 28 yellow cards, which is the 16th most of any team in the Championship so far this season.
It’s good for Danny Rohl who doesn’t have a whole lot of strength in depth in his first-team squad at Hillsborough. But two players currently walk a suspension tightrope in Yan Valery and Bernard.
Yan Valery and Di’Shon Bernard both risk one-game suspensions for Sheffield Wednesday
During the Steel City derby defeat against Sheffield United last weekend, defender Valery received a yellow card.
The summer signing from Angers is now on four for the season and risks a one-game suspension if he picks up another.
The same goes for Bernard who, despite his red card earlier in the season, still risks a one-game suspension if he receives a fifth yellow card.
But the yellow card count resets at the 19-game mark in the Championship and so Valery and Bernard have four more games to get through without a booking, and avoid a one-game ban.
However, after 19 games, if players then reach 10 yellow cards before the 37-game mark, it’s a two-game suspension.
Is any other Sheffield Wednesday player at risk of suspension?
Valery and Bernard are the only players that are one booking away from a one-game suspension.
But slightly worryingly for Rohl is the fact that midfield duo Barry Bannan and Shea Charles are both on three.
It feels unlikely that either player receives two yellows in the next four games. But should one or the other do so, their absence would be missed in the Sheffield Wednesday XI.
Elsewhere, Svante Ingelsson, Liam Palmer, Josh Windass, Dominic Iorfa, and the injured Akin Famewo are all on two yellow cards in the Championship this season.
Sheffield Wednesday return to Championship action with a visit from Cardiff City after the November international break.
The Owls currently sit in 15th place of the Championship table and Cardiff in 22nd, though only three points separate the two right now.