As Claudio Bravo spent yesterday bumbling about Old Trafford, treating the football as an object worthy of extreme suspicion, much thought was given to the mood of one Joe Hart.
Turned away from City by Pep Guardiola in favour of a goalkeeper who was more fleet of foot, Hart was not far from Gary Neville's mind as Bravo dropped a cross to allow Zlatan Ibrahimovic pull a goal back for United. Neville proclaimed Wayne Rooney's hoisted cross as a 'Premier League Cross' whatever the hell that means.
Presumably, Hart was meant to bask in the schadenfreude of his replacement underperforming in a game City won anyway.
We don't know whether or not Hart did, in fact, indulge in the above, but we can confirm that, if he did, it was rather short-lived joy, as he flapped at what is presumably a 'Serie A cross' on his Tornio debut, leading to an equaliser for Atalanta:
Ah Joe.
Oh dear. Joe Hart flaps at a corner, doesn't get enough of it, and Atalanta score into an empty net.
— Jonathan Liew (@jonathanliew) September 11, 2016
Here is his pain from another angle:
It was to get worse for Joe, who failed to stop an Atalanta penalty shortly afterwards:
It's quite surprising, really, to see an Englishman drop a cross. We had thought only foreigners did that.
Joe Hart now has to refund every single penny for yesterday's thoughts.
— Adam Hurrey (@FootballCliches) September 11, 2016
OK, let's put it like this: Hart dived the right way, but the penalty went in the wrong direction https://t.co/nchikpRAp4
— Jonathan Liew (@jonathanliew) September 11, 2016
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