21/09/2026
Bruno Fernandes on his conversation with Lisandro Martínez after the Fulham game:
🎙️ Reporter: “Bruno, we saw you speak with Lisandro after the final whistle. What did you say to him?”
🗣️ Bruno Fernandes:
“Licha came to me and said, ‘Bruno, I’m sorry.’
I told him, ‘You don’t need to apologise to me. Just make sure you react next time.’
The own goal was unfortunate. It was a deflection, these things happen in football. But you cannot allow one mistake to affect the rest of your game.
I told him to forget about it, keep his head up and demand the ball again. We need him.
Rashford had chances too. If we take one or two of those, maybe we’re not talking about the own goal now.
That’s football. We win together and we lose together.
We don’t need apologies. We need reactio