Shaelumstash
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Definitely, there is no point nullifying our best player by forcing him to expend energy on defensive duties. He's much better being further up the pitch. I also get your point about De Bruyne as a no.10. He plays like a winger in that role as he likes to instantly head forwards and go towards goal. Because of our style of play we need Silva in that position as he knows when to slow things down and when to play the killer pass. The control of possession is vital to our formation as otherwise we can have too big a gap between midfield and defence and be picked off quite easily. I'm sure Pellegrini will have recognised that we were better when Silva was central (6 goals scored is quite a clue).
You would hope so mate, but given the evidence of how well we started the season with Silva at 10, how bad we've been when he's not been there, it was baffling why he started him on the right against Newcastle.
He recognised the mistake and corrected it though, so there ended up being no harm done. I just hope he doesn't make the same mistake again.