Suprisingly? What the fuck are you talking about? His balls constantly find his targets. He makes less mistakes with those long balls than Vidal makes with the 5 - meter ones. Come on man...
He'll be banned anyway, because that's his 7th booking.
Remember Krasic dived to win a pen (and the game), conning the ref. It seems odd that such a ban hinges on how good an actor the culprit is, but there you go.