{"id":380481,"date":"2011-04-14T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T08:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/14\/roberto-mancini-calls-on-mario-balotelli-to-be-manchester-citys-hero-in-fa-cup-semi-final-against-united\/"},"modified":"2011-04-14T08:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T08:45:00","slug":"roberto-mancini-calls-on-mario-balotelli-to-be-manchester-citys-hero-in-fa-cup-semi-final-against-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/14\/roberto-mancini-calls-on-mario-balotelli-to-be-manchester-citys-hero-in-fa-cup-semi-final-against-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberto Mancini calls on Mario Balotelli to be Manchester City&#8217;s hero in FA Cup semi-final against United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<h3>By Phil Haigh<\/h3>\n<h4>14 Apr 2011 09:45:00<\/h4>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"57.119589141599\">\n<div readability=\"12.914798206278\">\n<div>\n                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mario Balotelli - Manchester City (Getty Images)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/b1331e4c126485_news.jpg.jpg\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mario Balotelli &#8211; Manchester City (Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h4>Related Links<\/h4>\n<h4>Teams<\/h4>\n<h4>Players<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <span readability=\"20.686567164179\"><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/italy\/170\/roberto-mancini\">Roberto Mancini<\/a> has called on controversial striker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/people\/italy\/16127\/mario-barwuah-balotelli\">Mario Balotelli<\/a> to put his problems behind him and become a hero for his team in the remaining games this season, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/109\/man-city\">Manchester City<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2900\/fa-cup\">FA Cup<\/a> semi-final with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/teams\/england\/97\/man-utd\">Manchester United<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The onus will be on the young Italian following the injury top scorer Carlos Tevez picked up in the 3-0 defeat to Liverpool on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mancini believes Balotelli is capable of filling the Argentine&#8217;s boots, and believes this weekend&#8217;s clash with their local rivals could be the time to do it.<\/p>\n<p>He was quoted as saying by<em> The Sun<\/em>: &#8220;He could be the hero. On Saturday, if he plays, he has a chance  to do well. And if he scores a goal that can bring us to the final, he can  change his year.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has the big-game mentality to do it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the previous game against Sunderland he played very well. But against  Liverpool, after it became 3-0, it was difficult for all of the players.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the next six league games &#8211; and in the semi-final and final &#8211; I hope Mario  can score goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>        <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/b1331e4c126485_news.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Excerpt from:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-gb\/news\/2900\/fa-cup\/2011\/04\/14\/2440677\/roberto-mancini-calls-on-mario-balotelli-to-be-manchester\" title=\"Roberto Mancini calls on Mario Balotelli to be Manchester City's hero in FA Cup semi-final against United\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roberto Mancini calls on Mario Balotelli to be Manchester City&#8217;s hero in FA Cup semi-final against United<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Phil Haigh 14 Apr 2011 09:45:00 Mario Balotelli &#8211; Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Roberto Mancini has called on controversial striker Mario Balotelli to put his problems behind him and become a hero for his team in the remaining games this season, including Manchester City &#8216;s FA Cup semi-final with Manchester United . The onus will be on the young Italian following the injury top scorer Carlos Tevez picked up in the 3-0 defeat to Liverpool on Monday night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Roberto Mancini calls on Mario Balotelli to be Manchester City&#039;s hero in FA Cup semi-final against United - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/14\/roberto-mancini-calls-on-mario-balotelli-to-be-manchester-citys-hero-in-fa-cup-semi-final-against-united\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Roberto Mancini calls on Mario Balotelli to be Manchester City&#039;s hero in FA Cup semi-final against United - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Phil Haigh 14 Apr 2011 09:45:00 Mario Balotelli - Manchester City (Getty Images) Related Links Teams Players Roberto Mancini has called on controversial striker Mario Balotelli to put his problems behind him and become a hero for his team in the remaining games this season, including Manchester City &#039;s FA Cup semi-final with Manchester United . 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