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 now have a first team pool of 17 players
manchestereveningnews.co.ukOle Gunnar Solskajer was typically phlegmatic after the final whistle and will accept that he learned a fair amount about some of his fringe players.
You wondered before the trip to Carrow Road how many changes Solskjaer would make, given his team had faced Sheffield United three days earlier and now travel to Brighton on Tuesday.
Yet even in the circumstances, eight changes was more than most expected as only Luke Shaw, Bruno Fernandes and captain (and goal-scoring hero) Harry Maguire kept their places - all playing the full 120 minutes required to beat 10-man Norwich.
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