{"id":78739,"date":"2026-04-17T13:24:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/manchester-uniteds-lisandro-martinez-to-serve-three-game-ban-for-hair-pull-red-card\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:24:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:24:59","slug":"manchester-uniteds-lisandro-martinez-to-serve-three-game-ban-for-hair-pull-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/manchester-uniteds-lisandro-martinez-to-serve-three-game-ban-for-hair-pull-red-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United\u2019s Lisandro Martinez to serve three-game ban for hair pull red card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Manchester United\u2019s Lisandro Martinez will serve a three-match Premier League suspension after his red card for a hair pull on Dominic Calvert-Lewin \u2014 ruling him out of Saturday\u2019s match at Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old Argentina international was dismissed in Monday\u2019s defeat at home to Leeds United after VAR John Brooks called referee Paul Tierney to the screen for the incident, which United appealed on the grounds Martinez did not pull with force and was challenging for the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Referees told clubs at the start of the season hair pulling would be seen as violent conduct and United\u2019s appeal has been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Manchester United are down to 10 men.<\/p>\n<p>Lisandro Martinez is sent off for violent conduct after being adjudged to have pulled the hair of Dominic Calvert-Lewin when challenging for a header.<\/p>\n<p>The Argentina international looked bemused as he was shown his marching orders. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KJFLphBmlO\">pic.twitter.com\/KJFLphBmlO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Athletic | Football (@TheAthleticFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAthleticFC\/status\/2043786360092241926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The defender will miss games against Chelsea, Brentford and Liverpool, and will next be available for the game at Sunderland on May 9.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez\u2019s absence is compounded by Harry Maguire\u2019s suspension after his sending off against he had a misconduct charge held up against him following his sending off at Bournemouth on March 20. Both the red card and follow-up misconduct charge resulted in two one-match suspensions, the first of which was served against Leeds on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t agree with it, it\u2019s obvious how I felt after the game, and I still feel that way now,\u201d United head coach Michael Carrick said on Friday. \u201cI don\u2019t want to go into it now, it is what it is. We have to accept it and move on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Carrick described the red card as a \u201cshocking decision\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Leny Yoro and Ayden Heaven are the only recognised centre-backs in United\u2019s senior squad, with Matthijs de Ligt still unavailable through a long-term absence. Manuel Ugarte, a midfielder by trade, played in defence following Martinez\u2019s red card against Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>Kobbie Mainoo, who missed Monday\u2019s match against Leeds through injury, is in contention to feature against Chelsea. \u201cThere is a decision to be made,\u201d said Carrick.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Dorgu, who has been out through injury since January, remains unavailable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester United\u2019s Lisandro Martinez will serve a three-match Premier League suspension after his red card for a hair pull on Dominic Calvert-Lewin \u2014 ruling him out of Saturday\u2019s match at Chelsea. The 28-year-old Argentina international was dismissed in Monday\u2019s defeat at home to Leeds United after VAR John Brooks called referee Paul Tierney to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-transfers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2271196531-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}