Even the mild-mannered Jadon Sancho can find Bruno Fernandes a little tiresome, but the Man Utd irritant will never change and he is keeping them on track.
“The thing people say about how I wave my arms at my team-mates. That has never happened. That is completely a lie,” Bruno Fernandes once said, without even a flicker of sarcasm.
There were a few qualifiers forthcoming. “I can be using my arms to ask for the ball and to tell them something about where to move the ball. But never do I talk to them in a bad way,” he said, adding: “Yes, I can shout at someone if they do not pass the ball when he has to do it, or if he does not take the decision in the best way, or if he goes two-v-one and does not pass the ball to his team-mate. Then it is normal to be angry at him.”
Long story short: Bruno Fernandes might wave his arms around a bit, but it’ll be someone else’s fault. And Jadon Sancho won’t have been the first teammate to request that he keeps more of a lid on it.
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In the first half at Old Trafford on Sunday came one of those precious few instances. Christian Eriksen occupied a space in the inside-left channel and had an unmarked Fernandes – fresh from his ‘injury crisis’ – calling for the square pass to his right. The arms flew up; the fury was real. Tyrell Malacia received the ball instead, returning it almost immediately, only for Eriksen to drift a hopeful, searching pass out for a goal kick.
The main regret was that Fernandes’ full reaction was not caught by the cameras, which were focused on the aimlessly trickling out of play. But Eriksen was playing 4D chess during a game of Checkers if what followed was anything to go by.
Emi Martinez lumped the ball towards the halfway line, only for Casemiro to devour Emiliano Buendia in an aerial battle. Marcus Rashford had spent the entire half playing on the shoulder of a high Aston Villa defensive line and he reacted quickest, forcing a save from Martinez. The World Cup-winning goalkeeper might have felt as though he had pushed it to a sufficiently safe area, but the tireless Fernandez was on hand to force it in through a deflection off Alex Moreno.
That “absolute disaster” midfield had made contributions of varying degrees to a crucial goal in the race for European qualification. And in seeing out the victory over Aston Villa, Man Utd have won 16, drawn four and lost none of the 20 games Fernandes,…
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