“All the time, now we have performed soccer with the ball however we’re a staff that run extremely. We’ve got been an instance in any other case we wouldn’t win.”
These had been the phrases of Pep Guardiola after Sunday’s emphatic Premier League
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Whereas the Catalan coach calls for lovely, attacking soccer when now we have possession, power and willpower off the ball have been the spine of his astonishing haul of 18 main trophies in 9 full seasons on the Etihad.
That’s a key pillar of our latest kind too, with Metropolis protecting extra floor within the Premier League than some other staff within the first 11 matches of 2025/26.
We’ve run a complete of 1,269 kilometres thus far, averaging a jaw-dropping 115.4 kilometres per recreation.
Our complete is seven kilometres greater than the second most energetic facet, Arsenal, with Leeds, Newcastle and Burnley finishing the highest 5.
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As for particular person distance lined per 90 minutes, three of the highest 4 gamers within the Premier League who’ve performed at the least 500 minutes are ours.
Phil Foden, who has loved a glowing return to kind and health in 2025/26, averages 12.42 kilometres each 90 minutes.
Membership captain Bernardo Silva is usually close to the highest of this metric and even in his ninth season in England, he continues to cowl extra floor than virtually all of his friends.
He’s balanced out at 12.11 kilometres, placing him third within the Premier League.
Nico is fourth amongst each participant throughout the entire division, clocking up 12.08 kilometres per recreation.
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That trio had been important to our spectacular efficiency in opposition to Liverpool final weekend, offering a strong basis due to their selfless work within the centre of the park.
It’s becoming that Bernardo, who has been chosen by Guardiola greater than some other participant, led the way in which within the boss’ 1,000th recreation as a supervisor.
He clocked up 12.76 kilometres, simply forward of Foden on 12.73 and Nico on 11.99.
Bernardo and Foden’s totals in opposition to Liverpool are the third and fourth most a participant has run in any Premier League recreation this season, with Foden’s tireless show in opposition to Everton final month topping the invoice at 12.85 kilometres in complete.
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Given these staggering numbers, it’s comprehensible that they haven’t featured in each recreation.
That has left Ruben Dias and Erling Haaland as the one two Metropolis gamers who’ve thus far gone past 100 kilometres in complete this season, registering 109.6 and 105.4 respectively.
As Dias and Haaland play in positions much less related to relentless quantities of operating, it reveals the boss’ message has filtered by way of to each member of his squad.
So, whereas we’ve all loved seeing Metropolis rating a league-high 23 objectives so far, Guardiola made it clear to followers and assembled media on Sunday that it wouldn’t be attainable with no super quantity of operating.
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Metropolis v Bayer Leverkusen tickets on normal sale
Tickets are on normal sale for Metropolis’s Champions League conflict with Bayer Leverkusen on the Etihad Stadium on Tuesday 25 November.
With 10 factors from our first 4 video games on this 12 months’s league part, Pep Guardiola’s facet are in wonderful kind in Europe’s elite membership competitors.
Solely sides within the high eight after eight matches will progress on to the Spherical of 16, so each recreation counts!
German champions in 2024, Leverkusen will present a stern check and have ambitions of a well-known victory below the Etihad lights.
With costs from simply £15 for Beneath-18s and beginning at £35 for adults, it’s the proper alternative to see two of the very best sides in Europe go toe-to-toe.
