Bruno Miguel Borges Fernandes (born 8 September 1994) is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Primeira Liga club Sporting CP and the Portugal national team as a midfielder. Fernandes started his career at Serie B side Novara Calcio and soon featured for Udinese and Sampdoria in Serie A.
In 2017, he signed with Sporting CP where he established himself as one of the best players in the Primeira Liga. He was named the LPFP Primeira Liga Player of the Year in both 2017–18 and 2018–19. In the latter season, he also helped Sporting win the Taça de Portugal. A senior international since 2017, Fernandes represented Portugal at the 2016 Summer Olympics and 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Manchester United youngster Anthony Elanga has issued a three-worded message in response to United supporters chanting his name on the way out of Atletico Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano Stadium on Wednesday evening.
Elanga, who turns 20 in April, was United's hero in the Spanish capital, stepping off the bench to net a crucial equaliser in the first-leg of their Champions League last 16 first leg against Diego Simeone's side.
Latching onto Bruno Fernandes' perfect through ball, Elanga showed immense composure to sweep the ball into the far corner, earning United a crucial 1-1 draw, to boost their ambitions of progressing to the last eight.
Unsurprisingly, renditions of Elanga's chant to the tune of 'Rhythm is a Dancer' reverberated from the away end where United's travelling contingent filled the Madrid air with Mancunian voices.
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