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.
Manchester United might have a new player of the year after West Ham win
manchestereveningnews.co.ukstraight to your inbox every day for freeManchester United will have prepared to thwart Craig Dawson from scoring at a corner.
What they could not have prepared for was Dawson scoring for them at a corner.With United's amateurish defending at set-pieces exposed again by AC Milan, the irony was they benefited from their aerial prowess against a team whose only method of attack was airborne.
United weaponised it via a Bruno Fernandes inswinger and Rochdale-born Dawson inadvertently showed his Greater Manchester roots.On days when he is not called upon from 12 yards, Fernandes is still United's matchwinner from dead-ball situations.
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