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.
Get the latest United updates, transfer news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox every day for free Bruno Fernandes has explained that he had 'to do something different' to celebrate a rare goal from Fred.
The Brazilian got on the score-sheet for only the fourth time in his 112 appearances for United against Tottenham on Sunday, as he buried a rebound after Edinson Cavani saw his shot saved.
The strike brought United back level after they had fallen behind in the first-half and set Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side up to go on and claim a 3-1 victory.
Fred hadn't scored for United since February 27, 2020, when he actually bagged twice in a 5-0 win over Club Brugge in the Europa League, and as a result Fernandes wanted to make his goal
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