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.
Big game goals In the first half an hour of the fourth Manchester derby of the season Anthony Martial's best contribution was in his own six-yard box, heading clear when under pressure from Nicolas Otamendi.
In an attacking sense he'd been sloppy. He was slow to react to a loose ball that might have seen him through on goal then spurned a simple pass to Bruno Fernandes to send a tame shot straight at Ederson.
But Martial has become United's go-to gun in the big games over the last couple of seasons and he wasn't going to be kept quiet here either.
When Fernandes chipped a free-kick over City's static defence, in what looked a well rehearsed routine, his volley squirmed under Ederson to match his best tally in a Premier League season to
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