Manchester City's Kyle Walker turns goalkeeper after Bravo red card

Kyle Walker ended night in goal as Manchester City h a night of goalkeeper conundrums. City appeared to be heing for a comfortable night in Italy on Wednesday when Raheem Sterling put side ahe after just seven minutes. Little did y kw y'd soon be short of goalkeepers later on. First, City goalkeeper Ederson was withdrawn at half-time break with an injury, n replacement goalkeeper Claudio Bravo was red-carded for hauling down Josip Ilicic and n Kyle Walker of all people stepped up for Premier League champions in goal for final few minutes. w that's some drama!

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Manchester City could have confirmed ir qualification to next round of Champions League with a win over Atalanta on Wednesday night and were on course to doing so when Sterling put m ahe early in game. City appeared to be at ir usual best controlling tempo of game well and forcing Atalanta to defend deep. But t everything goes according to plan and things soon started to go wrong when Gabriel Jesus missed chance to double le from penalty spot.

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Claudio Bravo replaced Ederson at break and Atalanta were a completely different team in second half, pressing City and showing some attacking intent. Within four minutes, y h produced a goal as Mario Pasalic heed in an equaliser. Bravo came on and h virtually thing to do until 81st minute when he rushed off his line to close down Josip Ilicic, only to bring down attacker receiving his marching orders in process. With more goalkeepers on bench, England full-back Kyle Walker h to don gloves for final few minutes and try to preserve a point for his team. He was called into action immediately, with Ruslan Malivskiy taking resulting free-kick which he did well to stop and gar it at second attempt. Walker’s only or involvement of te was to collect an over-hit cross in fourth minute of stopp time, keeping a clean sheet in his one and only outing between sticks.

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Ironically, Kyle Walker actually ended up making more saves in game than Bravo, who h been completely untested prior to his dismissal.

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