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mZuzek on 12 December 2022
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Eagle367 said:
Hiku said:

10 players?
If you're refering to the Argentine player who will miss the next match due to recieving too many yellow cards, another player will replace him and they'll still play with 11 as usual.

Wait did the rules of football change? I thought if one of your players got a red as in 2 yellows, they wouldn't be allowed to play next game or be subbed out. Please correct me if I am wrong.

This is how the rules always were. When a player is sent off, the team must play a man down until the end of the game, but while the sent off player remains suspended for the next match, he can then be replaced by someone else. No game of football starts out 11v10.

Then again, Acuña wasn't even sent off, just suspended for accumulation of yellow cards. Argentina will be without him for the semi-final, but will still field 11 players.