Source: Team_Talk
Spot-on Hart helps City to win
Joe Hart proved Manchester City's matchwinner as they beat LA Galaxy 7-6 on penalties following a 1-1 draw at the Home Depot Center on Sunday.[LNB] In a game best remembered by the showboating and subsequent blazing row Italian striker Mario Balotelli had with manager Roberto Mancini, the match was eventually settled by spot-kicks with England keeper Hart shining by saving two and scoring one.[LNB]Balotelli had given the Blues the lead with a 19th-minute penalty, but Mike Magee's second-half leveller ensured the game went to penalties to decide the outcome.[LNB]James Milner dispatched City's first penalty followed by Vladimir Weiss' neatly taken effort. Denis Suarez's first touch in a City shirt resulted in a goal after Galaxy missed their third kick and Kolarov made no mistake with the fourth penalty before Guidetti missed the chance to seal the game[LNB]Hart saved the first sudden death effort and then Joleon Lescott missed his with the crowd lapping it up.[LNB]Nigel de Jong kept the Blues in the hunt at 5-5 and Shaun Wright-Phillips also made no mistake before Hart saved another and then tucked home the winner.[LNB]But the row surrounding Balotelli reduced David Beckham's 45-minute appearance to a sideshow, after the former Manchester United star came in for some serious jeering from the travelling away support.
