The Blues midfielder picked up his second booking of the qualifiers when he angrily kicked the ball away after the award of an England free-kick 50 minutes into the match at Old Trafford. "We can't afford to lose a player for kicking the ball away," the Northern Ireland manager said after the game. "We are a small nation with a small group of players and we can ill-afford to lose players through suspension."
The caution now rules DJ out of Northern Ireland's must-win game against Poland on Wednesday night and Sanchez was far from pleased with the Blues midfielder picking up a yellow card for such petulance.