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 have confirmed their team news for the Europa League fixture against LASK on Thursday night. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has made five changes from the side which defeated Man City at the weekend with Anthony Martial missing out through injury.
Sergio Romero is in goal while Harry Maguire is joined in defence by Eric Bailly and Luke Shaw. Bruno Fernandes starts in midfield along with Fred and Scott McTominay, while Nemanja Matic is on the bench for the match in Linz.
Up front United have chosen Odion Ighalo to lead the line with the Nigerian forward accompanied by Daniel James and Juan Mata in attack.
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