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It is less than a month after Chelsea received punishment for the same offence.
Chelsea face yet another punishement with a £50,000 fine on the way for the six yellow cards their players picked up in Sunday's ill-tempered draw with Nottingham Forest.
As reoffenders, that is double the £25,000 punishment paid by the Blues for receiving six or more cautions in last month’s trip to Bournemouth, Marc Cucurella and Wesley Fofana are both now banned for Chelsea's next match with Liverpool after becoming the Premier League's first players to rack up five yellows this season.
Nicolas Jackson will hope to escape retrospective punishment for seemingly shoving Forest's Morato in the face during one manic melee after VAR decided it was not violent conduct.
Yet both clubs could face FA charges for failing to control their players during that fracas, which was sparked by Neco Williams when he pushed Cucurella into Enzo Maresca, forcing the Chelsea head coach to fall over.
Chelsea at least finished the match with 11 men, unlike Forest, who saw James Ward-Prowse dismissed for two cynical yellows. Despite having the Premier League's worst disciplinary record, Maresca defended the spirit shown by his team. "I like the team the way they are fighting. I like the way they are becoming a team in these kinds of things. I don’t see any problems."
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