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Hart’s debut to forget
- Updated: September 11, 2016
Joe Hart’s loan spell started poorly at Torino after the Serie A outfit lost 2-1 to Atalanta on Sunday.
Torino had just gone ahead when the England goalkeeper, who moved to Italy on transfer deadline day after losing his place at Manchester City, gifted Andrea Masiello an equaliser when he made a mess of a punch from a corner.
Hart was beaten again eight minutes from full-time as Franck Kessie beat him from the penalty spot.
His day started inauspiciously after the Torino team sheet named him as John Hart, although that may have been because his full name is Charles Joseph John Hart.
Nevertheless, things did not get much better on the pitch and Hart had a couple of nervous moments in the first half, needing a combination of good fortune and poor finishing to ensure a clean sheet by half-time.
Having had nothing to do for the first 20 minutes, Hart’s first contribution was to dive down to get a hand to a low drilled cross from Kessie.
The ball fell at the feet of Abdoulay Konko, whose follow-up shot beat Hart but hit his Atalanta …
