Kyle Walker Goal Line Clearance vs Liverpool: Community Shield goes to penalties courtesy the right back’s acrobatic defending

Archie Blade
|PublishedAug 04, 2019

Kyle Walker Goal Line Clearance vs Liverpool: Community Shield goes to penalties courtesy the right back’s acrobatic defending in the dying minutes of the match.

Liverpool fans must be feeling devastated at the moment. However, Manchester City fans and neutrals are feeling exhilarated and City right back Kyle Walker is to be thanked for that. With the score tied at 1-1, Mohammed Salah looked to win it for Liverpool. However, Walker had other plans.

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In the 93^rd minute of the match, Salah headed the ball into the empty net. However, Kyle Walker came running, as fast as he’s ever ran in his life and scissor kicked the ball over his head in a memorable display of defending. With that, Manchester City managed to take the game to penalties.

Kyle Walker Goal Line Clearance vs Liverpool

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Manchester City clinched the Community Shield via Penalties 5-4. Everyone but Liverpool’s Wijnaldum scored. Regardless, it was still a brilliant display from Liverpool who performed way better than what they had done all pre-season long.

Gabriel Jesus scores the winning penalty as @ManCity beat Liverpool on penalties to win the #CommunityShield

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— Premier League (@premierleague) August 4, 2019

Manchester City looked menacing in the start, scoring the opening goal in the 12^th minute through a former Red, Raheem Sterling. Liverpool equalized in the second half when Joel Matip headed a cross from Van Dijk in the 77^th minute. After that, Liverpool seemed the likelier of the two to head home with the trophy. However, Kyle Walker had other plans.

Surely Jurgen Klopp will not mind the loss. His boys played exciting football and showed that when push comes to shove, they will stand ready. Besides, Klopp rates the curtain raiser as a glorified friendly anyway. Guardiola on the other hand though, won’t mind the trophy and will be glad to start the season with a thrilling victory over the European Champions.

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Archie Blade

Archie is a WWE and UFC Editor/Author at the SportsRush. Like most combat sports enthusiasts, his passion for watching people fight began with WWE when he witnessed a young Brock Lesnar massacre Hulk Hogan back in 2002. This very passion soon branched out to boxing and mixed martial arts. Over the years he fell in love with the theatrics that preceded the bell and the poetic carnage that followed after. Each bruise a story to tell, each wound a song of struggle, his greatest desire is to be there to witness it all. His favorite wrestler is Shawn Michaels and he believes that GSP is the greatest to ever step foot inside the octagon. Apart from wrestling, he is also fond of poetry and music.

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