Of Manchester United’s last 100 Premier League fixtures, nobody has been more involved than Bruno Fernandes. The Portuguese playmaker has started 95 of those games since the mid-point of 2021/22 and of the five he missed he was either suspended, injured or ill.
When he’s fit, Fernandes starts. That has been the way of things for a while now and when the captain has been so essential to making this team tick it’s understandable.
For much of that period United have been a team of moments and Fernandes, with his high-risk, high-reward style, can often be the ultimate moments player.
The 30-year-old has made 164 Premier League appearances for United and 161 of them have been starts. The last time he was a substitute for a league game was an Old Trafford defeat to Wolves on January 3, 2022.