Why Bruno is on an unprecedented streak

The Portuguese carried on his recent influential streak by scoring the opener from the penalty spot in our 2-1 win over Crystal Palace on Saturday.

Fernandes is enjoying a fine season thus far under Erik ten Hag’s stewardship and his hard work is now resulting in goals and assists, at an even better consistency than during his red-hot start to life as a Red, after his arrival from Sporting in January 2020.

Before his Old Trafford penalty earlier this weekend, Fernandes had scored in the reverse fixture at Palace just 17 days earlier, a game after netting our equaliser in the Manchester derby.

During our recent run of fixtures, the midfielder has also set up Marcus Rashford’s goals against…