Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag will not be in the dugout when his side face Everton on Sunday after the Dutchman picked up three yellow cards this season

Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag will have to watch their game against Everton from the stands on Sunday, having been hit with a touchline ban under new Premier League rules.

Ten Hag was shown a yellow card during United’s 1-0 win over Luton town before the international break, having previously been booked in defeats to Tottenham and Arsenal this season.

“To a certain point, of course you have to accept decisions and I should do as well,” Ten Hag admitted after the game. “We have a very competent coaching staff and they will take over. Of course to a certain point I can be involved but I can say my coaching staff is very competent.”

The threshold for a touchline ban used to be four yellow cards, but that has been reduced to three this season with Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola and Fulham boss Marco Silva also serving bans due to the clampdown.

Guardiola watched City’s shock 2-1 defeat to Wolves in September from the directors’ box at Molineux and admitted he needs to try and “control” his emotions more on the touchline. “It’s not a big issue,” he said after the game.

“When I was a player at Barcelona I was the least physical player ever but maybe I was one of the most booked players in Barcelona, because I always talk and talk [at the officials]. Now as a manager it is the same.

“I say something if I think it’s an injustice or something I don’t like … I have to control it. In the stands it is impossible to get a yellow card, I was so relaxed, I try to analyse what happens.

Manchester United manager Erik ten Hag will not be in the dugout when his side face Everton on Sunday (

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“But there [on the touchline] when you see a few things you don’t like then I will say. I’d love to get no cards, I’d like to control [myself] – I will try to do it – but I cannot assure you 100 percent that I will.”

United currently sit sixth in the table, having won four of their last five league games, while Everton are now second bottom having been hit with a ten-point deduction for breaching the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules.

An independent commission found that Everton had overspent by around £24m over the past five years. However, Everton are set to appeal their punishment, branding it a “wholly disproportionate and unjust sporting sanction”.