England flanker Tom Curry has been handed an effective two-game suspension and will miss his team's Rugby World Cup Pool D matches against Japan and Chile following his red card inside three minutes against Argentina on Saturday.
Curry clashed heads with Argentina fullback Juan Cruz Mallia as he attempted to make a tackle from an upright position and was initially given a yellow card by referee Mathieu Raynal, which was upgraded to red after a bunker review.
The 25-year-old attended an Independent Disciplinary Committee hearing in Paris on Tuesday and was handed a three-match ban, though he will be free to face Samoa on Oct. 7 if he completes a coaching intervention program — World Rugby's "tackle school" — which he says he plans to do.