Blow for Stoke City as midfielder ruled out of next match and trio walking fine line.
News from the bet365 Stadium as Stoke City turn their attention to the next game after the international break.
Wouter Burger will serve an automatic one-game ban after picking up his fifth booking of the season.
The 23-year-old midfielder was shown a yellow card for dissent after referee Will Finnie refused to award Stoke a penalty for a foul on Burger by Millwall’s Jake Cooper at the bet365 Stadium yesterday. Finney later apologised to Stoke boss Narcis Pelach for not seeing the foul but the yellow card still stands.
Burger will miss Stoke’s trip to Queens Park Rangers on Saturday, November 23 after the international break and come back into the squad for a home match against Preston North End on Tuesday, November 26.
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Stoke now have three other players walking a yellow card tightrope. Ben Gibson, Ben Wilmot and Andrew Moran have all received four bookings so far in the Championship this season and will also be suspended for one match if they receive another before the end of the 19th game of the season, which is away at Sunderland on December 7.
Narcis Pelach said: “When (the penalty isn’t awarded) I don’t get it and the worst thing is that now we have Burger suspended for QPR, which is such an important game for us, an opportunity to put a lot of difference between us and QPR.”
