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Regardless of what has been a dismal season for Manchester United, one participant has stood tall amidst the wreckage — membership captain Bruno Fernandes.
The 30-year-old has 16 objectives and 15 assists in 44 video games in all competitions, his third-best season when it comes to objective involvements since becoming a member of the membership.
That solely goes to point out his stage of consistency with the Portuguese by no means failing to hit the double-digit mark for each objectives and assists since becoming a member of the membership beneath Ole Gunnar Solskjaer again in early 2020.
He at present has 95 objectives for the Crimson Devils and is twentieth on the all-time top-scorers listing for United. And the skipper has his eyes on going as excessive as doable on that embellished listing.
Bruno has his eyes on the prize
Up subsequent on the listing, in nineteenth place is famous former skipper Bryan Robson with 97 objectives to his identify. That quantity ought to ideally be crossed earlier than the season concludes.
The problem now for the 30-year-old is to eclipse Andy Cole’s document of 121 objectives, which locations him in seventeenth place, and Solskjaer himself, who’s on 126 objectives and occupies sixteenth place in that venerable listing.
“From Sandy Turnbull (101 objectives) it’s a great distance up. 121 for Andy Cole, then 126 for Ole. I hope to overhaul them and it is going to be signal for us as a membership that I’m scoring so many objectives,” he was quoted as saying.
“Hopefully I’m going to go up and up. I hope to attain as many as I can to assist the membership – and likewise assist my teammates to attain increasingly more.
“Clearly everybody at all times desires to attain objectives and needs to be concerned. Each time you rating, you clearly assist the staff to win video games and it’s clearly very, very particular.
“So it’s essential, but it surely’s not the principle factor in soccer. I’m not wanting on the lists and solely serious about overtaking whoever.
Outstanding sturdiness
“It could be particular. Each look and each objective at this membership may be very very particular. Everyone knows the sensation of scoring at Outdated Trafford.”
Not solely his capability in entrance of objective, but in addition his outstanding health document that’s praiseworthy with the previous Sporting ace lacking just one sport as a consequence of damage in six seasons.
He has raced to 277 appearances for the 20-time English league champions, a milestone the versatile genius is extraordinarily pleased with and rightly so.
“I believe 300 video games for any membership, it’s very, very particular. I need to play as many video games as I can, to at all times be out there for the staff and attempt to assist as a lot as I can do to assist the membership and play increasingly more, I’ll attempt my finest to do it.
“It’s at all times particular – each sport, each look. All of them are particular, those I’ve executed up till now, all of them have some particular emotions. Clearly some good outcomes, some dangerous outcomes, some others that we wished to do otherwise, but it surely’s at all times a pleasure to characterize the membership.”
Hopefully, he returns in high bodily situation from worldwide obligation and might proceed to bang within the objectives within the video games to come back as United look to win the Europa League this time period.
Function picture Carl Recine through Getty Photographs
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