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If you are the last man an attacker has a what? 50% chance of scoring? Foul him and you're off with a 3 game ban. If there's a great counter with a maybe 30% chance of a goal, you're essentially free to intentionally stop the attack. The gap between the two is too large.By that logic giving a player a yellow card for any foul, or for excessive celebration, or any other offense on the big feck off list I posted, does nothing, as it punishes them weeks down the line.
And it's not true that it isn't a punishment in the immediate. You become less aggressive as any subsequent mistake gets you sent off.
And the stakes are higher in knockout competitions. No player wants to miss a final or semi final due to accumulated yellows.
A yellow carded Rodri or Fabinho opens the game up for the opposition more, they'd take that going into the game.
A yellow was all that was needed when these occurrences were infrequent and accidental but now teams have turned it into a tactic and it needs stopping because its fecks the game up.