after his heroic performance in the nou camp, joe hart came out in defence of his manager manuel pellegrini, claiming he deserves to keep his job manchester city keeper hart, who made an incredible 10 saves to limit barcelona to a 1 0 win on wednesday, admitted that his team mates were feeling the pressure of speculation about their futures after another european failure but the england no 1 insisted the players are fully behind their manager as they seek to end their campaign on a high joe hart was in inspired form against barcelona, pictured here saving from man of the moment lionel messi  the manchester city and england no 1 backed his manager despite the team's last 16 exit  'we back our manager,' said hart 'he is a great manager and brought us two trophies last year 'now we have nine games to win, and that's what we hope to do 'it's always going to be the same at city, for all the players we appreciate that if we don't win everyone will be speculated about you have to be strong inside' hart was easily city's best player at the nou camp, and his immense contribution stopped barcelona adding to ivan rakitic's goal barcelona coach luis enrique said: 'the score could have been a rout hart was really on it towards the end we had a lot of chances, which is not normal in this type of game we deserved to win by a bigger goal difference' manuel pellegrini has been beaten four times by barcelona since becoming manchester city manager  ivan rakitic scored the only goal of the game as barcelona progressed at manchester city's expense  luis enrique had praise for city keeper hart after watching him deny barcelona a number of times 
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joe hart defends 'great manager'  after man city's champions league exit  manuel pellegrini has failed to reach quarter finals in two seasons with city  keeper hart admits city are under pressure after defeat by barcelona  hart made a record 10 saves against the catalan giants  click here for all the latest manchester city news 