straight to your inboxPep Guardiola has backed Bernardo Silva to return to his title-winning best this season.The 26-year-old stepped up in the absence of Kevin De Bruyne in the 2018/19 campaign and was the outstanding player in the Premier League as Manchester City won a domestic clean sweep.
Repeating those efforts proved more difficult last season and where Guardiola had once declared his team was 'Bernardo plus 10' he preferred other players as regular starters in the team.Guardiola has long bemoaned the burden placed on players by the non-stop fixture list and believes Bernardo suffered last season because of the amount of games he played.
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