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.
How the FIFA World Cup play-offs will impact Manchester United and their players
manchestereveningnews.co.ukManchester United stars Diogo Dalot, Victor Lindelof, Scott McTominay, Bruno Fernandes and Cristiano Ronaldo will be forced to go through the play-offs to help their respective countries qualify for next year's FIFA World Cup.
Ronaldo and Portugal joined Sweden and Scotland in being forced to enter the play-off picture after suffering a shock 2-1 defeat to Serbia in their final Group A qualifier in Lisbon on Sunday evening.
Despite going in front after just two minutes through midfielder Renato Sanches, Portugal saw the game swung on its head, as Serbia turned it around, thanks to goals from Dusan Tadic and Aleksandar Mitrovic, with the latter nodding home a 90th minute winner.
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