Kyle Walker admits he didn't want to take winning Man City penalty in Super Cup

Kyle Walker didn't want to take Manchester City's winning penalty in the UEFA Super Cup, but Pep Guardiola put him down for the fifth spot kick.

City and Sevilla had both scored four out of four penalties in a high-quality shootout after a 1-1 draw in Athens. Walker stepped up and squeezed his penalty under Sevilla keeper Bono before Nemanja Gudelj hit the bar and City cemented their status as Champions of Europe.

However, Walker admitted after the game that he wouldn't usually put himself forward to take a penalty, only doing so because he was wearing the captain's armband for the game. With Ilkay Gundogan gone and last season's vice-captain Kevin De Bruyne injured, Walker was skipper on the night which resulted in Guardiola putting his name down for a spot kick.

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"If anyone has played with me, I don't like taking penalties," he told TNT Sport. "I don't like letting people down if I miss.

"The gaffer put me as number five. Obviously [because of] the captaincy and leadership to take the penalty. Thankfully it went in and it was the winning one."

City weren't at their best for large portions of the game, although they got themselves back into the contest when Cole Palmer equalled out Youssef En-Nesyri's first-half goal.

Walker added: "It was always going to be a tough game. Start of the season. We put in a good performance, but we need to be more clinical in front of goal. We got the job done and that's what we came to do, win the Super Cup.

"That's what good teams do, capitalise on people's mistakes. We rode our luck but we got there. To come here in tough conditions it's really hot. We worked really hard to win the