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.
United are gunning for a top four finish in the league as well as silverware in the two cups and are currently on a 15-game unbeaten run under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Matic has been a huge part of that streak, returning to form around January and then reprising that form this summer after the lockdown to complement Paul Pogba and Bruno Fernandes in midfield.
And he told United's official website that United's players are ramping up the pressure on themselves for the run-in. He believes they can overtake Leicester and Chelsea and finish third. “For us, every game is a final, it doesn’t matter if it’s a real final in the FA Cup or the Europa League," he said. "For us every game is a final, we have to think like that.
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