UEFA : Cristiano Ronaldo Set To Play Against Manchester United

Cristiano Ronaldo will be available to feature against his former club Manchester United next month following Uefa ruled he served a one-match ban for his Champions League red card.



The 33-year old was controversially sent off during Juventus' 2-0 win over Valencia in his first Champions League game for the Old Ladies after he was judged to have pulled Jeison Murillo's hair.

That was Ronaldo’s first Champions League red card in his career. United will be play host to Juventus in Group H fixture on 23 October.

Ronaldo would have missed the return leg in Turin on 7th November if he was to served a three-match suspension.

The Portugal international will definitely miss Juventus’ next Champions League match against Young Boys on 2nd October.

Ronaldo, the five-time Champions League winner, who signed for Juventus from Real Madrid for £99.2m in the summer, tried to reach the end of a cross when he was blocked off by a tumbling Murillo.

He gesticulated to Murillo to stand up and looked to pull the defender's hair before leaving the scene in frustration.

Felix Brych, the centre referee, consulted his assistant behind the goal before showing a red card, making Ronaldo to weep as he left the pitch.

Uefa's punishments on straight red cards are on a case-by-case basis, unlike the Premier League's automatic three-game ban for violent conduct.

A one-match ban is automatic - with no any right of appeal - but regulation 50.01 of UEFA

for Champions League says that "when there are serious offences, the Uefa control, ethics and disciplinary committee has the right to augment this punishment."