Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Hart calls for Tevez support

Manchester City keeper Joe Hart believes his team-mates need to ease the burden on captain Carlos Tevez and contribute more.
The Argentina international has been the club's stand-out performer this season, although when he is kept quiet the team often struggle.
Tevez failed to score at the weekend and Roberto Mancini's charges were held to a late 1-1 draw by Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium.
City have been labelled a 'one-man show' but Hart insists everyone has been trying their best to boost results and ease the pressure on Tevez.
"We've been called a one-man show and it's hard not to be when that one man is absolutely brilliant and stands head and shoulders above most players on the planet," Hart explained.
"We're trying to help Carlos. He realises it's not all on his shoulders. We have to create passes for him to score, and he creates passes for the other boys. It's starting to come together.
"We have some great character in the side in people like David Silva. People will have looked at him on the pitch on Saturday and thought he had nothing to do with the game, but he ran the show.
"That showed big character from him and lots of balls. And of course, we've got Carlos, physically not that big, but so big for us when it comes to football."
Hart wants City to forget about their weekend disappointment by beating Red Bull Salzburg on Wednesday in a bid to advance in the Europa League.
Victory in Austria, along with Juventus dropping points against Lech Poznan, would see City qualify for the last 32, although Hart has no plans to take things easy.
"We have to look forward to Wednesday now and try to take the positives from our last couple of performances," he said.
"We have two group games to go and want to win them both. Even if we qualify this week, we will go into the Juve game wanting to win it.
"People will see it that we can have a breather if we qualify this week, but we don't see it that way. We want to keep on rolling. We're fit, strong boys and the more games the merrier for us.
"Coming to the City of Manchester Stadium to play City is a big event for Salzburg and they will give everything they've got. We had a good win out there and we have to look to do that again."
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