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.
Bruno Fernandes' superb reaction to being benched vs Liverpool sums his winning mentality
mirror.co.ukOle Gunnar Solskjaer says Bruno Fernandes reacted to being benched against Liverpool by practising his free-kicks, something which paid off to perfection in the game.
Fernandes climbed off the bench in the 66th minute of Manchester United's FA Cup fourth round clash against their old rivals, and with the score at 2-2.
Twelve minutes later the Portuguese stepped up to beat Alisson from just outside the penalty area after a foul by Fabinho on Edinson Cavani. “Great goal.
A good free-kick," Solskjaer told BBC Sport after the match. “When you leave him out, like I had to do today, he stayed about 45 minutes after training yesterday shooting free-kicks.
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