Two years on from a bleak moment with Spurs at the Camp Nou, the full-back is now showing his full worth for Southampton
Kyle Walker-Peters is flat out on the Camp Nou turf. Ousmane Dembélé has just robbed him on the halfway line and run away to score.
Barcelona are 1-0 up.
Tottenham are heading out of the
Champions League. And at this very moment – 9.07pm on 11 December 2018 – a 21-year-old right-back has hit rock bottom.
Two years on, Walker-Peters is reliving the experience. “I wanted a black hole to just swallow me up,” he says. “I was laying on the floor. And I remember Danny Rose picking me up. Harry Kane said to me: ‘Don’t worry, you’re playing well, we’re fine, keep going.’ It was a big, big moment for me.”