Marcus Rashford (born 31 October 1997) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United and the England national team.
A Manchester United player from the age of seven, he scored two goals on both his first-team debut against Midtjylland in the UEFA Europa League in February 2016 and his Premier League debut against Arsenal three days later.
He also scored in his first Manchester derby match, his first EFL Cup match and his first UEFA Champions League match. With United, Rashford has so far won the FA Cup, EFL Cup, FA Community Shield and UEFA Europa League.
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.
Bruno Fernandes concedes Man Utd face 'hard' task to qualify for Champions League after Man City derby loss
dailyrecord.co.ukBruno Fernandes admits it is "going to be hard" for Manchester United to reach the top four after suffering an 11th EPL loss of the season.An unbeaten start to 2024 came to an abrupt halt at home to Fulham last weekend and, having edged past Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup, was compounded by another league defeat on Sunday afternoon in the derby against Manchester City.
Marcus Rashford gave United a shock lead at the Etihad Stadium, only for Phil Foden's brace and a stoppage-time Erling Haaland strike to seal Pep Guardiola and City a 3-1 derby win."Obviously we're disappointed," Fernandes said after the defeat. "We could have got something from the game.
I think the effort from the team was there. Everyone tried really hard to get the result, but it wasn't possible."I said at half-time I felt that the team was doing everything we could to defend our box.
We know that at moments we had to defend deep and be together and be compact and help each other. We did it but obviously I think today the difference was the individual quality from the players of City that made them win this game."United currently trail league leaders Liverpool by a whopping 19 points while they also face a real battle to secure a spot in the Champions League for next season.
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