It would be four games.
Is it? I remember when Nolan got 10 against Wolves it was said that if he'd gone on to get sent off he'd have only missed 1 game instead of 2.
Play him against Chelsea but tell him that if he gets booked he needs to get another one in the last minute so that it's downgraded to a 1 game suspension.
Finishing above Sunderland is just normality returning. Nothing to celebrate, it's happened so many times that all the sense of achievement was lost a long time ago.