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.
'Madness' - Paul Scholes dishes out ultimate criticism of Erik ten Hag at Manchester United
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPaul Scholes said Manchester United look like an "uncoached team" and questioned whether the players know what to do on the pitch following the heavy defeat to Tottenham.
United were embarrassed against Spurs at the weekend. They conceded to Brennan Johnson after just two minutes, Bruno Fernandes was shown a red card near the end of the first half and Tottenham scored another two goals through Dejan Kulusevski and Dominic Solanke after half-time.
Thousands of fans made an early exit from Old Trafford and the defeat has increased the pressure on Ten Hag, who was fortunate to remain in charge in the summer after a poor season. ALSO READ: United player ratings from Tottenham clash ALSO READ: Fernandes on what Maddison told him after red card Scholes recently told the Manchester Evening News that Ten Hag needed to oversee a drastic improvement but he described United as looking like an 'uncoached team' against Spurs. "You don’t know how they’re going to play," Scholes said on SuperSport. "You don’t know how they’re going to approach games, whether they are going to play on the counter-attack or sit deep or whether they’re going to try to have all the possession in the game.
We’ve no idea. "They look like an uncoached football team. We’re two and a bit years in now… from the first week Ange Postecoglou went in, we probably knew what Tottenham were doing and they’re doing it to this day.
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