Bruno Guimaraes lay face down on the final whistle after giving everything he had in the tank to help Newcastle United to a vital 2-1 win over Leicester City.
Moments before his 95th minute strike he had screamed in frustration after chasing a loose ball but just falling short of retrieving it. And before that Bruno had shared a laugh with Brendan Rodgers as he cheekily grabbed a swig from one of Leicester's water bottles after working up a serious thirst.
The wild celebrations at the end will get the headlines, of course, but one hidden stat after the game emerged for the Newcastle midfield star. Incredibly he was the first central midfielder in the top five European Leagues to earn as many chances in front of goal in a single game (4).
And given his quality and coolness in front of goal, he was on hand to take two of them on an unbelievable day for the Magpies. Given Bruno's levels of fatigue, Eddie Howe was asked if he thought about taking him off towards the end.
But he replied: "I could see he was fatigued – at half-time he had a bit of treatment on his back, hence why he went down first half, so there was a slight concern there. But I just felt he was very, very important for us. The moments we did have playing through Leicester invariably involved him, so I wanted to try to keep him on the pitch, and also I was reluctant to change the midfield too much."
Bruno capped his day off by throwing his shirt into the crowd and the recipient, a boy watching the game with his father on Easter Sunday, could not have been happier. As the players left the field the boy and his father embraced each other beneath the tunnel.
It would have been easy for Bruno to go shirt swapping with some of Leicester's stellar cast. Instead,
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