Age and time seem to be hurtling fast towards Kyle Walker, but not as quick as Antoine Semenyo did on Saturday. If Walker has had a ropier game in a Manchester City shirt than what befell him at Bournemouth, then putting a finger on it is no easy task.
There was mitigation and his was the same as the collective. They weren’t fit and nor was he during an assignment borne from necessity after just six minutes of training in the past 16 days.
And yet this was a jarring, painful afternoon, where Semenyo demolished one of the greatest right backs of the Premier League era.