Inter Miami ahead Luis Suárez can be suspended for the ultimate sport within the Spherical 1 MLS playoff best-of-three sequence in opposition to Nashville SC.
Suárez earned the one-game ban for kicking Nashville’s Andy Nájar within the second half of the match on Nov. 1 at Geodis Park, the place Inter Miami misplaced 2-1. On the time of the incident, the referee didn’t difficulty the participant a yellow or purple card.
“The MLS Disciplinary Committee has suspended Inter Miami CF ahead Luis Suárez for one match and fined Suárez an undisclosed quantity below Disciplinary Committee Parameter 3 for violent conduct within the 71st minute of Inter Miami’s match in opposition to Nashville SC on November 1st. Suárez will serve his one-match suspension on November 8 throughout Miami’s match in opposition to Nashville SC,” the MLS Disciplinary Committee mentioned in an announcement.
Main League Soccer guidelines permit, nonetheless, for postgame disciplinary motion to be enforced when a match official fails to difficulty a card for an offense on the sector.
Suárez will now serve his second suspension from MLS motion in 2025, after initially receiving a three-game ban for spitting on a member of the Seattle Sounders‘ workers following the Leagues Cup ultimate on Aug. 31.
“Inter Miami CF accepts and respects the choice made by the MLS Disciplinary Committee,” the membership mentioned in an announcement on Wednesday. On the similar time, the membership needs to specific its concern concerning the precedent set by re-refereeing a play that had already been judged by the match officers and VAR, and its confidence that the identical normal can be utilized sooner or later to all on-field conditions, in any match and involving any staff.”
Inter Miami will now enter the decisive ultimate sport of the playoff sequence with out Suárez, because the staff seems to qualify to the subsequent spherical of the postseason. The Spherical 1 sequence is tied 1-1 after Inter Miami received the primary sport however misplaced the second.
