This Man City player claims he is better than Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo

Kyle Walker, Premier League giants Manchester City star, on Thursday made an amusing claim on photo-sharing application Instagram following his side’s 9-0 win in EFL Cup.

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5️⃣0️⃣ goals for the 🐐 in 2018. pic.x.com/XYEh0iuSd3

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— Team Messi (@TeamMessi) December 17, 2018

Walker, who plays full-back for the Sky Blues, took to Instagram on Thursday after his side’s epic win over Burton Albion in the English League Cup semi-final first leg where he called himself better than both the footballing greats of this generation – Barcelona star Lionel Messi and Portugal legend Cristiano Ronaldo.

 

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Goals in 2019: Walker: 1 Ronaldo: 0 Goals in Carabao Cup: Walker: 1 Messi: 0 End of discussion?

A post shared by Kyle Walker (@kylewalker2) on Jan 9, 2019 at 2:09pm PST

Highlighting a rather interesting difference between him and Messi-Ronaldo, Walker wrote, “Goals in 2019:

Walker: 1

Ronaldo: 0

Goals in Carabao Cup:

Walker: 1

Messi: 0

End of discussion?”

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— Cristiano Ronaldo (@Cristiano) January 10, 2019

Both Messi and Ronaldo were neck-to-neck in terms of goal scored in 2018. While Messi scored 51 goals for his club and country combined, CR7 was right behind at second with 49 goals.