Kyle Walker has defended his heated outburst against AC Milan teammate Joao Felix. The English full-back was visibly frustrated during the match against Napoli (which ended in a 2-1 victory for Antonio Conte's team) with his Portuguese teammate.
The former Manchester City star told Felix to "pass the ball", adding "we are not Messi" as the Milan players were in the tunnel out of the dressing room ahead of the second half.
Walker added:
"The comment I said was nobody is Messi. That's in every team in the world bar certain individuals who can turn a game on its head when they want to. I give them their plaudits - it's Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Jr, Mo Salah and Ousmane Dembele, who has been on fire since the start of the year. Apart from that you say it's a team game."
The AC Milan player continued:
"What I was saying to Joao is Leao is fantastic. One of the players who you can give him the ball and he can go past three, four, five players and put it in the top bin. At [Manchester] City most of our joy over the last number of years was from a process. Everything was the process of working out where you were on the pitch. That was with passes. If you have a player like Messi he can take on four players and put it in the back of the net. It makes the game so much easier. But against good-level opposition like Napoli I feel you need a process of passing the ball and wearing them down. Then the gaps appear. That was the conversation with Joao."
