Chelsea coach Enzo Maresca received a one-match touchline ban on Wednesday for dissent and over-celebrating a last-gasp goal in a 2-1 Premier League win over Liverpool on October 4.
Maresca will now be banned from the touchline for Chelsea’s match away to Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on Saturday.
He has also been fined £8,000 ($10,685), and the Football Association claims Maresca openly agreed to the misconduct charge.
He received a yellow card for protesting a penalty judgment and another in the sixth minute of stoppage time for aggressively celebrating Estevao Willian’s angled winner during a desperate onslaught.
Chelsea had lost their previous two games before facing Liverpool at home, and the victory moved them up to sixth place at the moment, whilst under-fire Maresca escaped a third consecutive league defeat.
Maresca is said to have told the Italian media that sprinting down the touchline and celebrating with the players was “an instinctive reaction” and that it was worthwhile even if he was sent off.
