Bernardo Silva believes Manchester City have nothing to prove and has backed his side to cope with their defensive crisis.
City have won back-to-back Premier League titles and enjoyed a clean sweep of domestic honours in a memorable campaign last time out.
But Pep Guardiola's men find themselves five points behind Liverpool with five matches of the 2019-20 league campaign played following last weekend's shock 3-2 loss at Norwich City .
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The reigning English champions returned to winning ways on Wednesday with a 3-0 victory at Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League and Silva is taking little notice of the criticism he and his team-mates have faced in recent days.