Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola picked playmaker Bernardo Silva as one of his top performers in Thursday's 2-1 win over Liverpool after he covered the greatest distance in a Premier League match this season.
City fired back to within four points of the league-leading Reds after Leroy Sane's 72nd-minute winner at the Etihad Stadium, where Silva played a key role in central midfield, per OptaJoe:
OptaJoe13.7 - Bernardo Silva covered 13.7 kilometres (8.5 miles) against Liverpool, the most by any player in a Premier League game this season. Endurance. https://t.co/QTZewXE1mn
Guardiola said in his post-match remarks just how impressed he was with the diminutive maestro, particularly against a defensive force like Virgil van Dijk, the world's most expensive defender:
"Bernardo Silva did everything.