{"id":224805,"date":"2025-10-19T09:24:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224805\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:24:18","slug":"fernandes-to-stay-man-uniteds-penalty-taker-despite-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/224805\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandes to stay Man United’s penalty taker despite misses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bruno Fernandes<\/a> will remain as Manchester United<\/a>‘s first-choice penalty taker despite his misses from the spot this season, according to head coach Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n

Fernandes has missed penalties against both Fulham<\/a> and Brentford<\/a> this season.<\/p>\n

The one at Craven Cottage meant United had to settle for a 1-1 draw while the failure away against Brentford came with the score at 2-1 before the home side made it 3-1 late on.<\/p>\n

But Amorim, who takes his team to Liverpool<\/a> on Sunday, has confirmed that Fernandes will be on penalty duty at Anfield.<\/p>\n

“He’s the main taker,” Amorim said.<\/p>\n

“He scores a lot of goals. If we need, we can change. But I’m fully confident that Bruno will sort that out.”<\/p>\n

Bruno Fernandes will remain Amorim’s first choice penalty taker.\u00a0Photo by Shaun Brooks – CameraSport via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Fernandes’ two misses — combined with Bryan Mbeumo<\/a>‘s miss in the Carabao Cup<\/a> shoot-out defeat to Grimsby Town — have been costly for Amorim during a difficult start to the season.<\/p>\n

The Portugal<\/a> midfielder was able to convert a late penalty in the 3-2 win over Burnley<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n

And before this season his last penalty miss in the Premier League<\/a> was against Chelsea<\/a> in December 2023.<\/p>\n

“I know that it’s not easy for him,” Amorim said.<\/p>\n

“But I think he has 70 penalties. He misses like eight. Two with me.<\/p>\n

“So I’m really annoyed with that. But he’s really confident. He’s training the penalties.<\/p>\n

“He’s trying to understand that people are watching the way he scores the penalties. He will be ready.”<\/p>\n

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Fernandes is a certain starter against Liverpool on Sunday as United go in search of their first win at Anfield since 2016.<\/p>\n

The same cannot be said for Kobbie Mainoo<\/a> and Joshua Zirkzee<\/a>, who have found opportunities limited this season.<\/p>\n

There’s growing speculation the pair could look to leave Old Trafford in the January window, but Amorim has insisted he “needs everyone” currently in his squad.<\/p>\n

“I know that in our club everything is a lot of noise,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You have to have news. Players are not playing. They want to play. There’s a World Cup.<\/p>\n

“There are agents that listen to the players talking all the time. I understand that but they are our players and we need everyone to have a good season.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes will remain as Manchester United‘s first-choice penalty taker despite his misses from the spot this season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-224805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}