Goalkeeper Joe Hart has claimed that the 4-2 defeat to Manchester United was one of the worst he has experienced in a Manchester City shirt.

United broke a four-game losing streak to City at Old Trafford on Sunday and the visiting gloveman was mentally struggling to come to terms with the lack of quality in the performance.

"That's one of my worst in a Man City shirt, definitely," Hart said. "It's hard to take. We've won enough of them to know how to lose properly though and we weren't good enough after the first 15 minutes.

"We let ourselves down and we let our supporters down.

"I'm hurting from this defeat, there's a lot of emotion running through me.

"Let's see how it feels tomorrow, we'll think about it and we'll go again."

City have now lost four of their last six Premier League games to sit in fourth position, four points ahead of fifth-placed Liverpool.