Monday 5 May 2014 16:01, UK
Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini believes Joe Hart's form has benefited from his spell on the sidelines earlier in the season.
Hart also earned praise from Sky Sports' Graeme Souness following his Saturday Night Football performance. Hart first got fingertips to a close-range Steven Naismith effort at 2-1 to the visitors - moments before City scored their third - and then kept out a fierce Gerard Deulofeu strike at 3-2 in the dying minutes. "Generally when you talk about goalkeepers you're being critical of them. But this save might just have won them the league," he said, referring to the 27-year-old's first stop. "Ross Barkley played a great little ball for Naismith, Joe comes out, makes himself big, gets his timing right when he goes to ground and gets the tips of his fingers on it. It's a great save. "If that goes in it is 2-2 but instead, two minutes later, they go 3-1 up. "Then the second save from Deulofeu at 3-2 was a great stop - although the defending was poor before that. "Hart should have got all the credit. As well as the goals going in at one end, he has certainly done the business for them today." Hart seems certain to go to the World Cup as England's first choice keeper - and skysports.com users have had no hesitation in picking him for Brazil using the England Squad Selector. Hart has proved the most selected player, making 284,000 of your squads.
