When you have 11 - yes, 11 - senior players out injured, the last thing you'd presumably want as a manager would be for one of your best options to get himself sent off and add to the list of unavailable players.

In Roy Hodgson's case, that's exactly what his captain Luka Milivojevic went and did in the FA Cup third round defeat to Derby.

In all honesty, it was a brainless moment from the Serbia international.

It wasn't to prevent a one-on-one situation, it wasn't merely a mistimed tackle - what the former Anderlecht man did let his manager and his teammates down massively when they're already struggling to field a strong XI anyway.

Milivojevic grappled with Tom Huddlestone and appeared to move his head towards the former Tottenham man's forehead, an act which was initially met with a yellow card before Michael Oliver checked the VAR monitor and upgraded it to a red.

As aforesaid, the former England manager is currently without 11 senior players after Max Meyer and Jairo Riedewald picked up injuries against the Rams, leaving Hodgson struggling to name a competitive side.

It truly will be an all-hands-on-deck situation when Arsenal arrive at Selhurst Park on Saturday, and one assumes that the 72-year-old Palace manager would've liked to have had his influential captain - who finished as the Eagles' top scorer last season with 12 goals - available to him.

Sadly, that won't be possible for the next three games due to a truly unprofessional moment from someone who is so often a reliable presence.

As a player, you can't help it if you get injured. It happens, albeit at a freakish rate within the Palace squad right now.

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What can be helped, however, is a player - let alone a captain - keeping his head, realising that his manager and his teammates need him dearly right now more than ever, and not getting involved in moments of stupidity.

Unfortunately for the south Londoners, their skipper could not do that - Milivojevic has let the club down hugely.

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