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Leeds United Are Charged with a Breach of Conduct by the FA After Chelsea Game

Posted on the 14 December 2021 by Maxiel

Leeds United are charged with failing to regulate their gamers by the FA after they surrounded referee Chris Kavanagh when he awarded Chelsea a stoppage-time penalty in final week's ill-tempered conflict

Leeds have been charged with failing to regulate their gamers in the course of the closing minutes of their 3-2 defeat at Chelsea.

The FA's disciplinary chiefs accuse Marcelo Bielsa's gamers of dropping management, and behaving in a disorderly style in direction of referee Chris Kavanagh after his resolution to award a penalty in opposition to them within the 93rd minute.

Kavanagh dominated Mateusz Klich had fouled Antonio Rudiger from behind, and Jorginho scored from the spot, his second profitable penalty of the sport and the successful objective.

If Leeds settle for the cost they'll obtain an ordinary advantageous from the FA, as Chelsea did once they accepted an analogous cost, following a crimson card for Reece James throughout a sport at Liverpool in September.

The West London membership had been fined £25,000 on that event however escape with out cost from Saturday's sport at Stamford Bridge.

Each Chelsea and Leeds will even be formally warned by the FA and reminded of their tasks, referring to a separate incident on the full-time whistle, on Saturday, when a touchline confrontation between Kai Havertz and Junior Firpo erupted right into a mass of pushing and shoving.

Rudiger and Diego Llorente had been additionally concerned and Firpo booted Bielsa's touchline bucket as he stormed angrily down the tunnel.

Leeds have the worst disciplinary file within the Premier League with 46 yellow playing cards, seven greater than Newcastle, who're second within the checklist.

'I do not assume we're a violent staff,' mentioned Bielsa on Monday.

'I have not noticed this topic. Generally it is informal and the main points generate yellow playing cards. Generally it's an extra of enthusiasm.'


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