Bernardo Silva - 2017/18 performances

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He's obviously going to be a great player, but looked a bit of an outsider tonight IMO. Looked like a brand new signing. Went for the same ball as KDB a couple of times, ended up getting in the way of someone else as well and then seemed to be very much on the periphery compared to Danilo and Sterling the other subs brought on to change the game.

Showed his quality with a couple of nice pieces of football and the great dribble into the box, but not ready to start IMO.
 
domalino said:
He's obviously going to be a great player, but looked a bit of an outsider tonight IMO. Looked like a brand new signing. Went for the same ball as KDB a couple of times, ended up getting in the way of someone else as well and then seemed to be very much on the periphery compared to Danilo and Sterling the other subs brought on to change the game.

Showed his quality with a couple of nice pieces of football and the great dribble into the box, but not ready to start IMO.
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He looks like he could get lost in a game quite easily. I'm still putting that down to him not being 100% up to speed though. Has an insane amount of quality with the ball at his feet.
 
domalino said:
He's obviously going to be a great player, but looked a bit of an outsider tonight IMO. Looked like a brand new signing. Went for the same ball as KDB a couple of times, ended up getting in the way of someone else as well and then seemed to be very much on the periphery compared to Danilo and Sterling the other subs brought on to change the game.

Showed his quality with a couple of nice pieces of football and the great dribble into the box, but not ready to start IMO.
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I am thinking the complete opposite, would rather we go back to 4 at the back and have him in to have another Silva on the pitch. Going for the same ball as KDB was just a product of not quite having the chemistry with him, but that doesn't develop unless they play with each other. Pep even mentioned last week that Bernardo and Sterling are dynamic players that he wants to sub on against tired legs with Sterlings sub actually working.

I just think Pep is wrong about using them against tired legs, he should go back to 4-3-3 to a 4-3-2-1 and get Raz, 2x Silva, Kevin on the pitch. Aguero and Jesus has a striker partnership isn't effective when teams just sit back, and the extra CB is not necessary either, Dinho as LB looked fine with Sane off and the back 4 allowed us to attack more even though we were down to 10 men, obviously attributed partially to the team's fighting spirit.
 
I like what I saw. Almost set up Silva at the very end if not for a great bit of defending.
 
promising performance, he just has that younger david silva look in him.
 
IMO he should be the 1st name on the Team sheet.

Pep should change the system to fit him or just let him start ahead of Jesus and play behind Aguero.
 
Looked brilliant when he came on. He and Sterling have just walked into the starting XI for the game vs Bournemouth in my opinion.
 
He is the perfect successor to Spanish Dave. It just seems so painfully obvious that 4-3-3/4-1-4-1 is our best formation for the players at our disposal. It gives us the most possible quality on the pitch. I think having Bernardo, De Bruyne, and Silva rotating as the two more advanced midfielders is just obviously how we'll get the best out of them.
 
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Pep should find a way to start KDB, Silva & Bernardo together.
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I think this is the key to our season - for me, once Mendy slots in I would play KDB centrally as he looked so much better once he switched to Fernandinho's position last night. Sure we may need to not do that against the very top teams but I believe that we need someone capable of picking out passes from deeper especially against teams that only wish to nullify us by sitting deeper - KDB is the best at this now Yaya's legs have gone a bit. We need Mendy's pace to recover to stop counter attacks down the left hand channel. Bernardo must be played, he is such a clever player.
 
No player on the pitch won more tackles (3) than Bernardo Silva during Man City vs. Everton.

He came on in the 69th minute.


 
I'd play him v Bournemouth.

Ederson
Danilo, Kompany, Stones, Mendy
Fernandinho
Sterling De Bruyne, Silva, Silva
Aguero
 
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