Tomorrow the long-awaited UEFA Champions League tournament returns to the bright screens. The most prestigious tournament in the Old Continent begins the quarter-final stage.
UEFA.com website has provided a list of players who will miss the first quarter-final matches. The list does not have many surnames, but there are plenty of players for whom one yellow card in the first match could cost them the return leg.
Players who will miss the first quarter-final matches: (Former club - current player's position)
Hakan Calhanoglu ("Bayer" - "Atletico") Jemerson ("Monaco" - "Manchester City") Gabriel Mercado ("Sevilla" - "Leicester City") Thiago Motta (PSG - "Barcelona") Andrija Zivkovic ("Benfica" - "Borussia")
Players who will miss the next matches in case of a yellow card:
Lisbon's "Benfica" - Dortmund's "Borussia" "Benfica": Pizzi and Andreas Samaris "Borussia": Raphael Guerreiro
Paris Saint-Germain - Barcelona PSG: Marquinhos Barcelona: none
Bayern Munich - Arsenal Bayern: Jerome Boateng and Philipp Lahm Arsenal: none
Real Madrid - Napoli Real: none Napoli: Kalidou Koulibaly
Bayer Leverkusen - Atletico Madrid Bayer: Benjamin Henrichs Atletico: Gabi and Filipe Luis
Manchester City - Monaco Manchester City: Raheem Sterling Monaco: Kamil Glik
Porto - Juventus Porto: Felipe and Andre Silva Juventus: none
Sevilla - Leicester City Sevilla: Vicente Iborra and Nicolas Pareja Leicester: Robert Huth and Islam Slimani.
