West Ham United winger Mohammed Kudus‘s ban has been prolonged to 5 matches and he has been fined £60,000 ($77,286) for violent conduct in final month’s Premier League defeat at Tottenham Hotspur, the FA mentioned on Wednesday.
Kudus was already serving an computerized three-match ban after receiving a pink card in opposition to Spurs, which dominated him out of the Hammers’ 2-1 house win over Manchester United and their 3-0 loss at Nottingham Forest, in addition to Saturday’s house match in opposition to Everton.
He was discovered responsible of violent conduct by an unbiased Regulatory Fee and can now miss their league matches in opposition to Newcastle United on Nov. 25 and Arsenal on Nov. 30.
Kudus sparked a heated altercation between gamers within the 82nd minute of West Ham’s 4-1 defeat at Tottenham on Oct. 19 when he fouled Spurs defender Micky van de Ven. Kudus first pushed Van de Ven within the face earlier than doing the identical to Pape Matar Sarr.
Referee Andy Madley upgraded Kudus’s preliminary yellow card to a pink after VAR examine, citing violent conduct, which triggered an computerized three-match suspension.
In its written causes, the unbiased regulatory fee mentioned the 24-year-old Ghana worldwide had apologised to the panel and mentioned he was “deeply embarrassed” by his actions.
West Ham had been additionally fined £30,000 for failing to make sure their gamers didn’t behave in a provocative and/or violent method. The London membership admitted to the cost. Spurs had been fined £20,000 in October, in relation to the identical incident.
“While the Membership is dissatisfied with the result, it respects the method that has been undertaken,” West Ham mentioned in an announcement.
