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Man City hero Bernardo Silva highlights everything that is wrong with broken Manchester United

As Roy Keane began reeling off his boilerplate rant about the ills of the modern Manchester United, it once again felt like one of the very best derby days from a Manchester City perspective.

They don’t tackle, they don’t run, they have funky boots and hairdos (the latter complaint was maybe not entirely well-placed given Jack Grealish had just run rings around Ralf Rangnick’s men).

Even so, amid the bulging veins, salvia and Micah Richards’ booming giggles, Keane did have a semblance of a point after Sunday's 4-1 shellacking.

Tracking data published by Sky Sports showed City ran three kilometres more than United over the course of the 90 minutes and made 162 sprints to their opponents’ 125.

During a whitewash of a second half, when United endured one humiliating 15-minute spell of having just 8% possession, City still outran their rivals by 56km to 54km and outsprinted them by 86 to 59.

If any player is the symbol of this punishing gulf between the two teams, it is the tireless, tremendous Bernardo Silva, who was a topic of conversation for Dom Farrell and Alex Brotherton on the latest City Is Ours Facebook Live.

DF: "In both derbies this season he's covered 12.5km in November - when he scored - and 12.8km on Sunday. He accounts for 11 of the 16 highest single figure game distances covered by City players in the Premier League this season [according to Opta].

"The passage of play towards the end that ended, with Sky putting up that graphic that showed City having 92% in the previous 15 minutes - so much of that was down to Bernardo.

"He was back in his box to tackle Marcus Rashford next to John Stones at centre-back, dropped in at left-back when [Joao] Cancelo was going roaming, closing down across the

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