'Pep PROVES me WRONG every season' Bernardo Silva talks everything Manchester City | ESPN FC

Since you've been alone in the game, how much has tactical work changed? How much more do you do now since you started in the game when you were young? Well, you develop and you learn a lot of new things, and I'm certainly not the same player I was nine ten years ago when I started in professional football and also, for example, at City. Playing in different positions makes you understand what you should do in different areas of the field, what position the wings place in each position and yes. I think my understanding of the game and the tactical part is much more developed at the moment.

Are you doing more? Do you feel like coaches are doing more of that? And obviously I know you work for pip but you work with pep. but is it more important in the game since you started? people I talked to before it's like you let your best players do their thing but it seems like now the tactics really form the structure of what team well if I'm pretty here I like to think I'm pretty young so when I started I think that the game was already very tactical I remember when I was like 10 years old you still have those players that didn't defend much and nowadays that just doesn't happen because it doesn't work, but definitely the game has changed a lot and will continue to change, it has always been like that and yeah, speaking personally, I have different coaches because now I've been playing for 10 years, I've had different coaches, I've had a lot of different experiences, so I sure learn a lot

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, I feel like I'm a more complete game and how much influence that has had in the transformation. your understanding of tactics and how they have a big impact on the game so Pep has been my coach the longest because I've never worked with a coach for longer apart from Pep I've been with Pep for six years with the another coach I had was Leonardo Geraldine Monaco for three years, so we had a big impact on who I am today as a player and I also learned that what you just said before is that no, no, no, no. stop, he knows that the game is evolving, so he doesn't let the other teams adapt to us, create every year, try to create something different from you so that the other teams don't get used to our way of playing and and Try to make them harder to defend ourselves than to attack us because we changed our setup, we changed our preparation, we changed the way we attack and defend and yes, that changed the way I look at the game because I always thought Fatima was doing well, if you keep doing those things well , you keep winning and it

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because we do well and he changes so we continue to do even better, so yeah, that was a big impact.

From what I know about the game, the cleverness with which tactical systems are changed and players play different positions, you know, it's incredible, but it all seems to happen naturally, how do you learn? How does he teach you these technical systems? Do you do video analysis in the field? How does it basically drill it into you and it just happens on the field? I think it is a job of many, many years, so of Cheky's sports director who selects these types of players who are not only football players, but who understand the game and like the game in a specific way that Pep wants to play and that we, the players, enjoy playing that way and when everyone is on the same page then it is easier to adapt to different positions because we know exactly what we have to do, of course it helps the fact that we have been with him for six years personally six years and some players seven, some players five four, but we have been with him for a long time, so I know exactly what he wants and in every position, even if it is not my position, I know what he wants of a central defender or a striker, so if one day I have to play there, I know it may not be my best position, but I know. what he wants there, that helps for sure, different players playing in different positions with all the information, do you even apply additional tactical work as you know, as you would hear?

Yes, I took 30 balls and I knew three kicks. and shooting and all that, do you do additional tactical work on your own to understand? Would you be looking at things on your phone to understand what you need to do? No, we do not do additional tactical work. We prepare each game depending on the team. who we are playing against and over time you start to get used to what he says, what he likes and what he expects from you and when you play every three days for six years, you have played about 300 games in that time.

In every game you know how he prepares, you know what he wants and year after year, personally, I think in my first season, when I arrived, I didn't know what this was, so it was difficult for me and then season after season, now I know exactly what he wants with his eyes closed because I've been with him for six years so I think it's with time, experience, games and training sessions, that's what you get, so forgive my ignorance, I may be understanding this. bad, but it seems like you played left back several times yes, what was your reaction when Pepsis, Bernardo, you are going to play left back?

No, it was the left back position in recent years, it was a position that was played at times. For me, as a midfielder, Fabián Delph, when I arrived here six years ago, was a player who played in that position, he came in the middle with the ball without the ball, sometimes he came through the middle or defended a little wider than the Enchenko, that is the natural position is also a number eight or a number ten and when it is canceled and when the checker left and we didn't have as many players in those positions now obviously we are playing more with the center box like Nick Tanake or Akanji. but before that maybe I thought I was laughing, I'm going to try Bernardo there because it might work and yes, he called me to his office and said: this is what I'm thinking, are you prepared to do it?

I said yes, I will do my best, it was a surprise, I didn't expect it and it was a big challenge because I had never done it before, but it was nice because it was a nice challenge and it was something different and I and I like to be in those positions where you learn, so it was difficult but pleasant and what was I asking of you as a left back. What would you say? What are your demands? What is the difference between them? than a traditional left back would play depending on the game, but above all I knew that without the ball I would have to defend a little wider because, especially if the opposing team's wingers were playing wide, I would have to defend them. and it is very difficult because I am not a fast player, so I have to protect my back at the same time that I have to check the line with the other defenders so as not to put everyone in place and then with the ball, he wanted me in that position because he wanted me to do the preparation next to the holding midfielder, like we normally do, but we played against Aston Villa and then we played against Arsenal and then we played against Forest and I think I played those three games there and he asked me different and specific things depending on the opponent we were playing against because opponents move in different ways and depending on that, he always tries to adapt and make it work for us to attack and defend the best.

Possibly, how did you feel when you went out and played as if you had just played left back? What are your first thoughts about playing such hard music? I respect defenders a lot more now that I've been in that position because when you're a winger or a number 10 attacking midfielder, you go into the game focused, but you know that if you miss a pass or lose a ball, it's okay because you have eight players behind you. . you're a defender, you go in with your mentality completely changes, it's a very focused mentality and instead of a creative mentality, it's a mentality of not making mistakes and knowing that you give them this and they could score a goal, so it's difficult be a defender honestly and It was a very good experience, yeah, so one last question about tactics before we move on to the more fun kind of stuff.

How important are tactics to winning a game? There are many different elements that contribute to an overall outcome, so where do tactics fit? In that, winning well nowadays plays a very important role because every team looks at you before playing against you, so every team we play against we know what they are going to do or we know what they do mainly because we look. their games we watch their clips we know they are players we know which ones are fast which ones are more technical which ones are more physical so we try to surprise them sometimes and we try to know exactly what we have to do against different opponents. plays a very important role in today's football.

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