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.
The inquest in the Manchester United dressing room after a fourth Premier League defeat of the season focused as much on another wayward afternoon in front of goal as it did a contentious decision to award West Ham a late penalty.
The United squad were livid at Michael Oliver’s intervention from Stockley Park, with the VAR directing David Coote to the screen to view a penalty box collision between Matthijs de Ligt and Danny Ings.
Jarrod Bowen converted to give the Hammers the lead, after Casemiro had initially cancelled out Crysencio Summerville's goal.
The view from the players was that it had been a standard coming together during a battle for the ball and they were stunned not only when Coote was told to watch the incident again, but when he then awarded the spot kick.
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