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.
straight to your inboxManchester City will need to quickly get over their disappointment of losing the Manchester derby as they're back in action on Wednesday against Southampton.City's remarkable 21-game winning streak came crashing to an end on Sunday at the hands of Manchester United, as an early Bruno Fernandes penalty and a second-half Luke Shaw strike secured a shock 2-0 victory for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's side.The Blues could have gone 17 points clear and all but put an end to the title race if they had have won but instead United have closed the gap on their neighbours to 11 to give themselves a flicker of hope.Pep Guardiola will be hoping to snuff that out as quickly as possible and get his side back to winning ways when Southampton.
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