KYLE WALKER will have expected nothing less from the team he enjoyed so much glory with.Throughout his eight years at the Etihad there was always drive, determination and will to win and all of those characteristics were still on show on his return.GettyErling Haaland netted a late brace to seal Man City’s win over Burnley[/caption]ReutersHaaland’s goals took him to eight for the Premier League season[/caption]EPAMaxime Esteve’s own goal gave the hosts the lead[/caption]PAEsteve then netted another own goal in the second half[/caption]Except that there are now times – such as midway through this clash – when Pep Guardiola’s players look like they are chasing shadows of their former selves.In the end there was victory, like veteran Walker so often celebrated, but what he will also have noticed is that there was a lack of real conviction in a victory by a big margin – but not one without any real Guardiola style.Manchester City, having taken an early lead through the first of two own goals put down to Maxime Esteve, lost the plot for a while after Jaidon Antony had equalised, shook themselves up to go again.The score line in the end made it all look easy. For a while it was far from that.And nobody in Blue, probably not Guardiola in his heart, will be thinking that a another Prem title might await at the end of this campaign.So much so that he even parked the bus at the Emirates six days previously and spent so much of this clash shaking his head in frustration.Although that rearguard action had nothing on what Scott Parker attempted from the start here.From thirty or so yards out from Martin Dubravka’s goal the men in black stacked up in a smothering exercise.SUN VEGAS WELCOME OFFER: GET £50 BONUS WHEN YOU JOINHe surely won’t have shown his players the stats of these clashes. That would probably have terrified them.For boss Parker is bound to have known that City had won each of their last 13 meetings with the Clarets in all competition by an aggregate score of….46-2. Make that 49-3 now. Walker got back to a warm welcome from the support that had lauded him across six Prem titles and a Champions League triumph.But the applause the 35-year-old will have appreciated, having admitted he was “selfish” in heading out on loan to AC Milan in January very quickly became a memory.For Jeremy Doku was in no mood to be nice. In fact he got straight down to making life miserable for the right back who moved to Turf Moor in the summer.The left winger had already left him for dead by cutting inside before in the 12th minute, he then moved to the outside in a het–heeled burst.ReutersMatheus Nunes scored City’s second of the afternoon[/caption]GettyJaidon Anthony netted what turned out to be a consolation for the Clarets[/caption]Walker was left powerless as his opponent fired in a shot that Dubravka did well to parry at his near post.But the ball flew straight towards the in-rushing Phil Foden and Maxime Esteve.Foden would have scored easily – except that the defender got there a millisecond earlier and simply couldn’t stop himself from deflecting into his own net.Walker, once the fastest defender in the west, was embarrassed by Doku again as the Belgian sprinted through the middle with his former team-mate in his rearview mirror.Another fierce left footer followed, and if anything, Dubravka did better to keep this one out than on the earlier occasion and this time he got lucky, too, because there was no one waiting to pounce.Yet having first given the impression that they were sitting ducks Burnley’s players clearly decided to have a bit of a peck back – against a side that have so far this season looked far too fragile for Guardiola’s liking.Hence the cautionary tactic that against Arsenal produced only 38.2% possession, the lowest of the Guardiola era.AlamyIt was an unhappy return to the Etihad for Kyle Walker[/caption]But they still gave up an injury-time equaliser to Gabriel Martinelli to leave London with a 1 – – draw and in the 38th minute they gave up another to the side trying to find its feet after last season’s return to the Prem.Guardiola had made three changes, including leaving out holding midfielder Rodri from his squad with the Spaniard not quite fit and with Wednesday’s Champions League visit to Monaco in mind.Similarly, Bernado Silva started off on the bench.Matheus Nunes was deployed in Walker’s old position but he failed to deal with an attack by Quilindschy Hartman who slipped the ball sideways to Jaidon Antony.His shot clipped the back of Ruben Dias’ heel and flew past the bemused Gianluigi Donnarumma – until then a virtual bystander.Lyle Foster and Hartman produced scares early in the second half but City, as Walker so often helped them to do, at least kept working and passing.Just when it seemed frustration was about to take hold Josko Gvardiol swung the ball high for the otherwise hapless Erling Haaland to meet and Nunes, these days with the chance of making Walker’s old position his, swept high into the net.Four minutes later he turned provider, setting up sub Oscar Bobb’s drive – even if the unfortunate Esteve again found himself credited with the crucial final touch.Haaland then lit up his day with a late double. Cue big smiles all round. But this was City flattering to deceive and Walker will have left again knowing exactly that.Match Stats