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.
Damning pictures of "embarrassing" Man Utd setup increase pressure on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
mirror.co.ukAfter Demba Ba handed Istanbul Basaksehir a 13th minute lead against Manchester United, Dion Dublin, summarising for BBC Radio 5 Live called it “absolutely embarrassing defending." Except it wasn’t.
It was indeed embarrassing. Certainly it was absolutely embarrassing. But defending? Not in any sense of the word. Alvin Martin, working for talkSPORT, declared it "the most ridiculous goal I’ve ever seen conceded in the Champions League." Igor Akinfeev (pick a time) may beg to differ, but he most certainly had a point.
A short corner from the right was taken short by Bruno Fernandes to Juan Mata. Aaron Wan-Bissaka joined in, tried to take on his man and saw a low cross blocked.
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