''Stupid'' Manchester City defending leaves Joe Hart facing Manuel Pellegrini's wrath
''Stupid'' Manchester City defending leaves Joe Hart facing Manuel Pellegrini's wrath
Boss livid after farcical late Torres goal wins title race 'six-pointer' for Chelsea PLUS Mourinho's crowd-surfing apology
Not again! Pellegrini has seen City gift-wrap goals in their three away defeats
Clive Rose
Furious Manuel Pellegrini refused to back Joe Hart after Fernando Torres’ "stupid" last-minute Chelsea goal sent his Manchester City plunging to defeat. Hart
was left stranded yards outside his box when team-mate Matija Nastasic
headed a hopeful downfield punt past him to allow Torres to win the
match with his first Premier League goal of the season.
It was the latest in a string of gaffes involving England keeper Hart, who was left equally embarrassed by Andreas Weimann’s winner as the Eastlands side lost to Aston Villa and blunders against Scotland, Cardiff and Bayern Munich.
And
Pellegrini, who was also infuriated by Mourinho’s crowd-surfing
celebration of the Torres goal, declined to give his keeper any support.
Pellegrini said: "We have lost three away games, and in all of them we have conceded goals the other team did not deserve.
"We are losing stupid points. In all three games, we’ve had the main responsibility for the goals the other team scored.
"I
do my analysis with the players, not the press. You must ask him how
his confidence is. From tomorrow,we will see the best way to change
things.’"
Pellegrini was angered by the actions of Mourinho - who
insisted he had gone in search of his son, Jose Junior, whose
season-ticket is for a seat behind the away dug-out - when he piled into
the crowd after Torres' winner.
The Chilean declined to shake
hands with his opposite number, who he knows from their La Liga days at
Malaga and Real Madrid respectively, and explained: ‘’I don’t speak
about him. I didn’t expect anything else.
"It is a different way to celebrate from me. I didn’t shake hands because I didn’t want to. I don’t want to say any more.’’
Mourinho dismissed the handshake snub after the win that put the Londoners second in the table, but claimed: "I think Chelsea is guilty because I want to buy a season ticket for my son, and they give them a ticket behind the away dug-out.
"I
went for him, I promise. I went for him. If they believe my son is
there, great. If they don’t believe, I apologise if they feel I did
something wrong.’’
Mourinho also insisted he will have no option
other than to field a reserve side in the Capital One Cup at Arsenal,
which kicks off barely 48 hours after this match ended.
"We are going to give the game that the people who put the game on Tuesday want,’’ he said. "We cannot give a big game.
"If they want us not to win a trophy, that’s a help. If they want Arsenal to win a trophy, that’s a help too.’’
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