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26th Oct 2016

VIDEO: Joe Hart makes mistake of his own and proves he’ll forever be associated with Claudio Bravo

Don't expect that loan deal to be cut short

Darragh Murphy

When Claudio Bravo drops a howler, Joe Hart is all that anyone can tweet about.

If Bravo misjudges a cross, it’s “Joe Hart would have caught that.”

If Bravo gets sent off, it’s “Joe Hart must be laughing now.”

And, apparently, Bravo’s name also crops right up whenever the England international cocks up.

Having enjoyed a relatively uneventful start to life in Italy, Hart came up with one of the worst mistakes of his Torino career on Wednesday night.

The ‘keeper, on loan from Manchester City, came out trying to close down the onrushing Mauro Icardi and, having seemingly reached the ball first, Hart bizarrely just parried it directly against the striker rather than simply take it into his grasp.

It was a strange sequence of play, and one that resulted in Torino falling behind to Inter.

But at least we learned that the Bravo/Hart dynamic also works when the latter makes a mess of things.

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