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Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes’ high-quality efforts weren’t sufficient for Portugal to seize a win in Glasgow in opposition to Scotland.
Fernandes has not had the most effective begin to the season as he has failed to attain a objective for his membership and acquired two pink playing cards in a matter of days in opposition to Tottenham Hotspur and FC Porto, though the primary one was overturned.
The 30 12 months outdated has already publicly addressed his type this season and claimed that he’s working laborious to do higher and return to his goalscoring methods of the previous.
Regardless of failing to win for the primary time of their group, Portugal dominated proceedings final evening with 70% of the ball and 14 photographs to Scotland’s 4.
Fernandes began on the left of a midfield three alongside Vitinha and João Palhinha.
He was given a rating of seven.3 by Sofascore and was closely concerned, as one would anticipate.
The United captain performed the complete 90 minutes, having 82 touches of the ball. He additionally accomplished 56 of his 66 passes for an accuracy of 85%.
As typical, Fernandes bought by means of his fair proportion of defensive work profitable his 4 floor duels and making two tackles.
He made two key passes within the sport however was additionally wasteful in his lengthy passing, as he may solely discover the goal as soon as in seven makes an attempt.
His crossing was additionally disappointing as he may solely join with certainly one of his eight makes an attempt to discover a colleague within the penalty field.
Fernandes did virtually rating when he missed a giant likelihood to provide his facet the lead within the 87th minute of play. The ball was squared to him within the field and his first time hit was nicely saved by Scotland keeper Craig Gordon. He additionally hit the woodwork within the second interval of motion.
Sadly for United followers, his poor streak in entrance of objective continues however he will likely be hoping to place that proper when the Pink Devils welcome Brentford to Previous Trafford this coming Saturday.
Featured picture Euan Cherry through Getty Photos
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