N’Golo Kante and Diego Costa booked against Crystal Palace and will miss Boxing Day match… and fans think there is a conspiracy
CHELSEA will be without N'Golo Kante and Diego Costa on Boxing Day after the duo received their fifth bookings of the season at Selhurst Park - and fans think there is a conspiracy.
Referee Jon Moss showed striker Costa a yellow card for dissent after he was pulled up for a foul midway through the first half.
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That means he will miss the Blues' Boxing Day clash at home to Bournemouth - and then minutes later, N'Golo Kante met the same fate for persistent fouling.
Costa racked up four bookings in the first six games of the Premier League season, but then incredibly - by his standards - went ten games without receiving another yellow card.
While Kante got his first on the opening day of the season, before getting his other four in the past five games leading up to today at Selhurst Park.
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If they had survived until December 31, his previous yellow cards would have been wiped out.
But as it is he will now be able to enjoy Christmas Day at home with his family.
And Twitter users were slightly suspicious that that was what they wanted the whole time....