Premier League rules set to rule out Newcastle United star as Eddie Howe accepts one-match ban

The Magpies take on Everton at Goodison Park this evening (kick-off 5:30pm) with Joelinton just one yellow card away from serving a one-match Premier League ban.

The Brazilian has been cautioned in four of United’s opening six league fixtures, his latest coming in last weekend’s 1-1 draw against Manchester City for a foul on Erling Haaland. Under Premier League rules, any player showed five yellow cards in the opening 19 league matches is required to serve a one-match suspension.

In order to avoid that, Joelinton would have to stay out of the referee’s book until the trip to Tottenham Hotspur on January 4. A suspension in the near future is evitable but Howe is pretty accepting of the situation.

Howe told NewcastleWorld: “I think you have to accept it to a degree but you can’t have a destroyer, ball-winner, brilliant at second balls, duels, tackler - that force that he is in the middle of the pitch and not accept sometimes he is going to mis-time tackles and sometimes he is going to pick up yellow card. You can’t have it both ways.

“Of course we don’t want to lose him to suspension, we will try and help him a bit but as I say, you can’t have it both ways.”

During the 2022-23 season, Joelinton served a one-match ban for five bookings and a two-match ban for accumulating 10 yellow cards.

“Yeah I’ve had many chats with Joe on different things of course, and that’ll be one part of it,” Howe added.

“We don’t want to miss him, losing him is always very difficult especially so early in the season, it’s too early to miss a player through suspension so it’s something he has to control what’s in his control.

“Sometimes with a tackle you can be a second late and you have to sort of accept that but it’s many the other ones that we need to eradicate from him.”