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- Updated: December 14, 2016
Former Manchester City manager Stuart Pearce believes Pep Guardiola’s lack of tactical consistency is confusing his players.
Guardiola’s methods have come under scrutiny in recent weeks after a poor run of form which has seen City win just four of their past 15 games.
Last weekend’s 4-2 defeat to Leicester came after a 3-1 loss to Chelsea the previous week and City have now fallen seven points behind Antonio Conte’s Premier League leaders.
At the King Power Stadium, Guardiola began with a back three of Bacary Sagna, John Stones and Aleksandar Kolarov, with regular right full-back Pablo Zabaleta deployed in an unfamiliar midfield role.
The Spaniard quickly abandoned that formation when Jamie Vardy scored the first of his three goals for Leicester in the third minute and Pearce believes that sends a bad message to the players.
“I was at the Leicester game at the …
