Former Tottenham Hotspur Becomes an Important Figure of Manchester City

DBasia.news –  In Manchester City there are many stars, such as Ederson Moraes, Kevin De Bruyne, and Bernardo Silva, as well as Raheem Sterling and Sergio Aguero. But over the past four days, the right back, Kyle Walker has become an important figure for Manchester City.

Kyle Walker has an extraordinary role and contribution in Manchester City’s last two games. Interestingly, the contribution of the former Tottenham Hotspur player in the two matches has not been the same.

Saturday (11/02/2019), Kyle Walker suddenly appeared as Manchester City’s savior against Southampton. Being left behind 0-1 since the 13th minute by James Ward-Prowse’s goal, he was the one who turned things around with a 2-1 score.

In the 70th minute, the 29-year-old player gave a pass that was neatly completed by Sergio Aguero as an equalizer. Then, four minutes before the game was over, he grabbed the corner kick with his left foot into the winning goal.

Four days later, Wednesday (11/06/2019), Kyle Walker was once again a figure that was attracting attention. This time in Matchday IV Champions League match at the San Siro Stadium which is the temporary base of Atalanta. His role was as an emergency goalkeeper.

Manchester City experienced a big problem when the game entered the 81st minute. Claudio Bravo was sent off for wedging up Josip Ilicic. In fact, he was only included at the beginning of the second half replacing Ederson Moraes who suffered a minor injury. Pep Guardiola no longer has a goalkeeper on the bench.

At that moment, Kyle Walker appeared. He rose from the bench, came on for Riyad Mahrez, and took over the role of goalkeeper. He escorted The Cityzens goalkeeper without conceding for 16 minutes. He had graced his performance by saving Ruslan Malinovskyi’s free kick.

Regarding the appearance at Atalanta’s turf, Kyle Walker said, “I think this is between the two (voluntary and Pep Guardiola’s orders). I tried and sometimes become a goalkeeper when training. However, tonight, I came to realize that sometimes the goalkeeper has to do two touches. “