UEFA TO PROBE RAMOS’ INTENTIONAL YELLOW

Uefa is investigating reported comments by Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos that he intentionally got a yellow card to provoke a favorable Champions League ban. Ramos risks an additional one-game sanction — for a quarterfinals first-leg game — if Uefa decides his 90th-minute foul in a 2-1 win at Ajax on Wednesday was deliberately seeking a yellow card. Uefa says “a disciplinary investigation has been initiated.” Uefa can impose an extra punishment on players who seek to control the timing of a one-game ban for accumulation of yellow cards to ensure it is served in a less important game. After Madrid scored an 87th-minute winner in the round of 16 first-leg game, Ramos made a hard tackle on Ajax’s Kasper Dolberg. His third yellow card of the competition triggers a ban for the second leg where defending champion Madrid is heavily favored. /