{"id":162180,"date":"2025-09-22T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162180\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T20:35:08","slug":"fernandes-brings-up-century-for-man-utd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/162180\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandes brings up century for Man Utd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was no surprise that Manchester United fans voted Bruno Fernandes their player of the match in the chaotic 2-1 win over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/chelsea?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Chelsea;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Chelsea<\/a> at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese midfielder was voted also voted man of the match on his debut in 2020 and has since become the club&#8217;s talisman, steering the team through plenty of rocky waters in the intervening years. United&#8217;s top scorer last season, he has reached double figures for goal involvements every season he has been at the club.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old has won the fans&#8217; player of the year award four times in his six seasons at the club, and against Chelsea, Fernandes earned over half of the votes after a typically energetic performance that saw him score his 100th goal in United colours.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of those goals have been crucial, including the injury-time winner against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/burnley?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Byahoo.north.america%5D-%5Blink%5D-%5Bsport%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Burnley;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Burnley<\/a> earlier this season. Saturday&#8217;s goal came in his 200th Premier League game \u2013 he would not have reached that landmark had he accepted a lucrative offer from the Saudi Pro League in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>United fans are increasingly grateful that he did not.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The image displays a breakdown of Bruno Fernandes' goals for Manchester United by the method of scoring:&#10;Right foot: 88 goals&#10;Left foot: 8 goals&#10;Headed: 4 goals\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"335\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/35a3798050f0e66194828d5ac1e3ba06.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>[BBC]<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758573308_12_\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was no surprise that Manchester United fans voted Bruno Fernandes their player of the match in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[18891,26261,49,48,562,2680,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-162180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-bruno-fernandes","9":"tag-burnley","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-chelsea","13":"tag-manchester-united","14":"tag-soccer","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}