The Manchester City goalkeeper believes the Catalan giants and Juventus are Europe's two best sides but favours the side inspired by Lionel Messi.Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart hopes Barcelona win the Champions League, but he has no doubt Europe's best two teams have reached the final.Barca and Juve meet at the Olympiastadion in Berlin on Saturday, with both sides looking to complete a treble.And Hart has revealed he will be rooting for the Liga champions, having been awed by the "magical" Lionel Messi when Barca eliminated the English side in the round of 16.I hope they win the Champions League, and a lot of it will be down to Messi," the England international toldThe Mirror.We got beat quite comfortably over the two legs, it is fair to say.
We battled hard to get to through the group stage and we didn't really get to our full level.We did, maybe, in the second half of the first leg at the Etihad - if we did that for the other three-quarters of the tie, we would have given ourselves a chance but it is difficult at the top, top level.Juventus have done fantastically, these are the two top teams at the moment. We have got a long way to go but we are willing to work hard, we are a good club with great owners and the players want to do it in Europe as well.Hart produced solid display in the second-leg against Barca, making numerous saves in his team's 1-0 loss - which led to a 3-1 aggregate defeat.But he insists he enjoyed his diving save to deny Federico Fernandez in City's 4-2 Premier League win over Swansea in May more.It was a busy, busy night and from the perspective of a young guy who loves football - the Camp Nou, against the best players in the world, it was a really exciting," Hart said of the Barca clash.But I enjoyed the save at Swansea more because we got the victory.Messi was magical in both legs against us. Every time he touched the ball, something was going to happen.Watching him since Christmas, when Barca have kicked on, the only way to stop him, it seems, is with five or six players - and as he attracts those players, he sees a pass to someone else and they'll score.
We battled hard to get to through the group stage and we didn't really get to our full level.We did, maybe, in the second half of the first leg at the Etihad - if we did that for the other three-quarters of the tie, we would have given ourselves a chance but it is difficult at the top, top level.Juventus have done fantastically, these are the two top teams at the moment. We have got a long way to go but we are willing to work hard, we are a good club with great owners and the players want to do it in Europe as well.Hart produced solid display in the second-leg against Barca, making numerous saves in his team's 1-0 loss - which led to a 3-1 aggregate defeat.But he insists he enjoyed his diving save to deny Federico Fernandez in City's 4-2 Premier League win over Swansea in May more.It was a busy, busy night and from the perspective of a young guy who loves football - the Camp Nou, against the best players in the world, it was a really exciting," Hart said of the Barca clash.But I enjoyed the save at Swansea more because we got the victory.Messi was magical in both legs against us. Every time he touched the ball, something was going to happen.Watching him since Christmas, when Barca have kicked on, the only way to stop him, it seems, is with five or six players - and as he attracts those players, he sees a pass to someone else and they'll score.
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