Tonight 15 min performance just show a glimpse of why Bruno were not considered the best AMC in PL and one level lower than De Bruyne. When he played bad, he could be REALLY very bad, gave you 3 mistakes / bad choices in a row when your team needed the performance the most. De Bruyne 's baseline is much higher than Bruno, even in his bad days, you still can count on him to do the basics right. Last Sunday drama win against West Ham just shadowed Bruno's bad performance in 2nd half as well.
Now we were given a false impression that all our creativity came from Bruno and without him we could not produce goal chances. But when you look further, you would find that Bruno makes the creative passing his own monopoly: whenever balls to his feet, he instantly tried a killer pass, lose it or make a key pass. He basically ignores all those creative players around him like Sancho, Pogba , rather risking it under his feet instead of make a progressive pass to other creative players and let them try. At the end of the day, all key passes came from Bruno, because only him has ever had the chances to try making the key passes. You could call him a winner willing to take on more responsibilities, however this is just not a healthy tactics as opponents just easy to defense as they just know Bruno will try the through ball anyway.