The duo look ahead to Wednesday's game against Chelsea as Manchester City looks to regain top spot in the Premier League from rival United as focus switches to the title chase
Joe Hart and Kolo Toure insisted that Manchester City is looking ahead despite knocked out of the Europa League by Sporting Lisbon.
The Portuguese side took a three-goal lead on aggregate, only for City to score three of its own, but fall just short of netting the fourth required to go through to the quarterfinals.
The 24-year-old goalkeeper went up for a last minute corner but saw his bullet header superbly saved by his opposite number, Rui Patricio.
"I can't believe it. I thought it was [in]. It didn't need to get to that, but football is football and it's about drama," Hart told ESPN. "In the second half I thought we were fantastic but in the first half we didn’t show what the fans deserved. We just need to take the positives out of the first half and move for the rest of the season."
Hart was disappointed with the nature of Sporting's goals and was doubly upset to see the tie slip away from his side.
"That's football," he said. "Sometimes you get exposed. The majority of the time I'm not so I'm not going to get hung up on that. You need to play well in every game, there aren’t many games like that. We can't afford not to play well in any game. We let ourselves down in the first half, but as I say if we keep rolling now we’ll be alright."
City's next game is against Chelsea in the Premier League and the 24-year-old is keen to get back to winning ways against Roberto Di Matteo's side.
The Portuguese side took a three-goal lead on aggregate, only for City to score three of its own, but fall just short of netting the fourth required to go through to the quarterfinals.
The 24-year-old goalkeeper went up for a last minute corner but saw his bullet header superbly saved by his opposite number, Rui Patricio.
"I can't believe it. I thought it was [in]. It didn't need to get to that, but football is football and it's about drama," Hart told ESPN. "In the second half I thought we were fantastic but in the first half we didn’t show what the fans deserved. We just need to take the positives out of the first half and move for the rest of the season."
Hart was disappointed with the nature of Sporting's goals and was doubly upset to see the tie slip away from his side.
"That's football," he said. "Sometimes you get exposed. The majority of the time I'm not so I'm not going to get hung up on that. You need to play well in every game, there aren’t many games like that. We can't afford not to play well in any game. We let ourselves down in the first half, but as I say if we keep rolling now we’ll be alright."
City's next game is against Chelsea in the Premier League and the 24-year-old is keen to get back to winning ways against Roberto Di Matteo's side.
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"We can take positives because we are a great side. We are one point behind the leaders of the Premier League," Hart added. "We’re a good team. We’ve got nothing to worry about. We’ll go into that match [Chelsea] as favorites. We should be favorites. We’re a good side and I hope we will win."
Toure dubbed the match 'strange' and also insisted City is looking forward to the future and not the past.
"It has been a strange game. They scored two at the start and then we were chasing the game," he explained. "I think we did well and Joe Hart had a great header at the end but the goalkeeper managed to tip it out. It was really unlucky for us. We now need to keep our heads up and just think about the next game against Chelsea. For Manchester City, every trophy is very important. When we go out it is very difficult, but now we just need to think about the future because the past is the past."
"We can take positives because we are a great side. We are one point behind the leaders of the Premier League," Hart added. "We’re a good team. We’ve got nothing to worry about. We’ll go into that match [Chelsea] as favorites. We should be favorites. We’re a good side and I hope we will win."
Toure dubbed the match 'strange' and also insisted City is looking forward to the future and not the past.
"It has been a strange game. They scored two at the start and then we were chasing the game," he explained. "I think we did well and Joe Hart had a great header at the end but the goalkeeper managed to tip it out. It was really unlucky for us. We now need to keep our heads up and just think about the next game against Chelsea. For Manchester City, every trophy is very important. When we go out it is very difficult, but now we just need to think about the future because the past is the past."
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