The Portuguese international has played at full-back in the victories over Aston Villa and Arsenal that saw us return to the top of the Premier League.
Guardiola joked after the 3-1 win at the Emirates Stadium that his tactics were ‘horrible’ but he said it had nothing to do with Bernardo’s role.
“Bernardo at full-back is more aggressive in the duels like Fabian Delph and Oleks Zinchenko,” he said in his press conference ahead of Saturday’s trip to Nottingham Forest.
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“I wanted to defend more with the wingers more inside, to provoke them to go one side. After five, 10, 15 minutes I felt I didn’t like it. We could not press intensely, we could not behave in this way and we changed.
“If it doesn’t work it comes back to previous games, Jack [Grealish] come back more wide.
“The players took responsibility, defending the bad moments and came back to who we are. Go almost man-to-man and more aggressive, give them less time to think and to play.
“It would be so incorrect to say [the comment was] for Bernardo, absolutely wrong.”
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