For his red card in Stuttgart after an emergency brake to Tiago Tomas, through the penalty Gladbacher 1: 2 bankruptcy was sealed in the relegation candidate, Ko Itakura (26) was only cracked by the German Football Association (DFB) to a one-game suspension.
So the Japanese central defender is missing in the Bundesliga only Saturday (3.30 p.m. / Sky) against VfL Bochum.
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It was Itakura’s second straight red this season. He was sent off in the 0-1 draw against Mainz on matchday 5 in the first half of the season (also after an emergency brake, back then against Karim Onisiwo).
The Japanese international was also the last Gladbach professional to be dismissed early in Stuttgart before being sent off. The fact that a Borussia player was responsible for his team’s red card twice in a row has only happened to one other foal so far: Christian Kulik (70) was only knocked out on the 7th matchday in Kaiserslautern (2:4) in the 1979/80 season, then again on the 13th matchday at 1:1 in Dortmund.
Effenberg also saw two red cards
Crazy: These two red cards within seven match days were Kulik’s only red cards in a total of 220 Bundesliga games!
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Fact: In the Bundesliga no other Gladbach professional has seen more than two reds. In addition to Kulik and Itakura, Stefan Effenberg (54), Thomas Kastenmaier (56), Steffen Korell (51), Patrik Andersson (51) and Martin Dahlin (55) also flew down twice with a real sending off.
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However, there is another leader when it comes to traffic light cards!
Granit Xhaka (30) saw the traffic light card four times (plus one straight red). In addition to his two dismissals, Effenberg still collected three yellow-reds. Alassane Plea (30), Ramy Bensebaini (28), Michael Klinkert (54), Enrico Gaede (43), Zejlko Sopic (49) and Korell saw two traffic light cards.
Incidentally, cult defender Martin Stranzl (42) is not in the list – because in his 118 Bundesliga games in a Borussia jersey he only saw red and yellow-red once each.
In his total of 258 first division games (he also played for 1860 Munich and VfB Stuttgart) it looks different – there Stranzl flew down a total of seven times (four times traffic light card, three times red)…
2023-05-04 05:00:58
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