Silva has run farther than any of his City team-mates this season

Bernardo Silva sits back in his plastic chair and his eyebrows jump briefly when he is told how much ground he has covered for Manchester City this season.

Silva always knew that he had run a fair distance, but perhaps not this much. In his 27 appearances in the Premier League and Champions League, Silva has run a remarkable 283.9 kilometres (176.4 miles).

“Yeah? Wow,” he says before letting out a chuckle. “It’s true that I’ve been running quite a lot.”

That is something of an understatement. Give or take a few miles, it is the same distance between the Etihad Stadium and Buckingham Palace.

Silva, 24, has run farther than any of his team-mates this season. No one else in the league has managed