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.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer explains Bruno Fernandes penalty technique for Manchester United
manchestereveningnews.co.uk1-0 win for United against Copenhagen in their Europa League quarter-final on Monday night. United had laboured for much of the contest in Cologne but were deserved winners over the stubborn Danish side.
Fernandes has now scored his past 18 consecutive penalties for both United and Sporting Lisbon and only missed two of his last 29.
His effort that finally beat Copenhagen's Karl-Johan Johnsson was without the usual 'jump' that has become the Portuguese's trademark and Solskjaer was asked about the technique by BT Sport after the game. "He knows that keepers will wait for him to do the jump," said the United boss. "He did it against Tottenham.
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