Our Portuguese magnifico is renowned as a brilliant penalty-taker and, once again, showed nerves of steel to calmly beat keeper Julen Agirrezabala from the spot, once all the fuss subsided after the lengthy VAR review and red card for Dani Vivian.
Soon after, he latched on to Manuel Ugarte's clever flick and buried an unerring finish to make it 3-0 at San Mames, which is how the scoreline remained until the final whistle.
Let's start by looking at just how good Fernandes has been in the Europa League, in terms of the overall context.
Since the start of the competition in its present guise, in 2009/10, our skipper now sits joint-third in terms of goalscoring.