Tchamadeu looks to keep out of trouble to aid Stoke

JUNIOR Tchamadeu now has to get through 14 more games without a yellow card to avoid an automatic suspension in the one position where Stoke City would probably be left with most head scratching.

- Peter Smith

Tchamadeu has played every minute in the Championship so far for Stoke - four wins and a defeat - but has picked up a yellow card in each of his last four appearances. Only two other players in the division can match that; Preston's Andrew Hughes and Portsmouth’s John Swift.

Players who pick up five bookings inside the first 19 matches are subject to a one-match ban. That means he has to get up to the end of a game at Sheffield United on December 6 to avoid a week on the sidelines. Yellow cards are competition specific so that does not include cautions in the Carabao Cup.