Many people are aware of Chelsea's discipline issues over the past few seasons with the Blues receiving more red cards than any other team in the Premier League since the start of last season.

Tottenham are the closest to Chelsea in terms of red cards, with the North London club being shown five red cards in the same period, whereas Chelsea have been shown nine, with Cole Palmer being the latest when he was given his marching orders against Roberto de Zerbi's side on October 24.

But were Xabi Alonso's team is lucky not to have received a tenth with new footage emerging showing Morgan Rogers appearing to have made head contact with his knee on Sunderland's Trai Hume during the two sides' match on Sunday.

During a break in play, Rogers was seen walking back to his position, but doing so with Hume on the floor and as the Chelsea forward walks past Hume, his head makes contact with the Sunderland defender's head.

Hume immediately held his head, rolling around on the floor, with teammate Thomas Meunier coming over to see what had happened to his colleague, and the VAR team saying that this was not deemed to be an offence.

But this isn't the first time that Rogers has come close to getting himself sent off this season.

In games against Everton and Tottenham, Rogers has made some stupid decisions that, on any other day, could have landed him in trouble with the referee.

Already on a yellow card at the Hill Dickinson Stadium, after an earlier challenge on Everton's James Tarkowski, both Rogers and James Garner flew into a 50/50 challenge with each other, with the Everton man coming off the worse out of the two, with Rogers escaping a red card by referee Paul Tierney.

This decision fumed both the Everton players and fans, booing the officials off at half time, with ex-referee Mike Dean believing that the Chelsea man should have been shown a second yellow.

""I think it’s a minimum yellow. I called red straight away. When you see the angle we’ve seen now, he doesn’t get the ball, Rogers. He might’ve just flicked it, but he catches him with his stud just on the inside of Garner’s knee.""

"“I think it’s a straight red me, I really do. I just think it’s not a good tackle at all.”"

Only a week later, at Stamford Bridge against Tottenham, with Chelsea already down to 10 men after Cole Palmer's red card, but in injury time, Rogers slid in on ex-Chelsea man Conor Gallagher, leaving the Spurs man in a heap on the floor, with the majority of opposition players and pundits strongly disagreeing with the referee's decision to only show Rogers a yellow card.

None more so than Gary Neville, who called Rogers' challenge "ludicrous", describing the way that Xabi Alonso's man went into Gallagher, saying, "He's absolutely wellied him with no intent."

On three occasions this season, Morgan Rogers can count himself a lucky boy to not have been shown a red card, and whether that is down to frustration around the team's performance on the day or just a misjudgement.

Whilst Rogers' recent performances have dipped over recent weeks, he is still an integral part of Xabi Alonso's side, and him missing any time out would be a detriment to Chelsea going forward into what is now a congested period of the season.