Fernandinho key for City There are many other City stars who regularly feature in the headlines and get their share of plaudits, but Fernandinho is just as vital as any of them and his role has continually been undervalued.
The 34-year-old has consistently been one of the side’s best performing players once again this season, despite having to play large parts of the campaign in the heart of defence - a position which he has rarely previously been deployed in.
The Brazilian is primarily a defensive midfielder but injuries and an absence of form of City’s defenders has seen him drop back.
Fernandinho has labelled Guardiola as a ‘special’ manager and suggested that he wouldn’t have been able to make the move into defence had it not been for
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