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🚨🎙️ | Bruno Fernandes on facing Sporting in the Champions League:

"I'm very happy and I was very happy to see that I'm going to go back to play there and playing against them [Sporting].

"But obviously this is a mixed feeling because I've have a great uh great history there."

🚨🎙Bruno Fernandes on Tielemans 'mimicking' his penalty run-up vs Ipswich Town:

"I think it's to get on the rebound, so he doesn't get into the box before I kick the ball. It's so difficult for him to do that run-up because you jump and then lose your balance because there's no ball to kick.

"It's quite a smart thing to do because you're going to be on the run into the box when opponents are standing still and then have to accelerate.

"I did not even notice in the game, but then he was the first to get on me to celebrate the goal so it made sense that he got there so quick."

🚨🎙️ | Bruno Fernandes on what Harry Maguire said when he became captain:

"I still remember now, the words he said to me were: 'If I had to lose the captaincy to someone, I'm happy that it's you because I think you deserve it, I think you're going to be a great captain for us."

🚨🎙Bryan Mbeumo on the season's GOAL:

"Expectations are always HIGH. We want to take it one match at a time and see where it takes us.

"You always have to set GOALS, we want to win a lot of matches, and if you do that, you stand a good chance of achieving GREAT things."

"We have a lot of FREEDOM in attack because many players can play in different positions. We know what to do in every position because we work HARD in training.

"The manager [Carrick] tells us that we have to know every role, because we might be asked to fill different positions."

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🚨🎙️ | Bruno Fernandes on his penalty process vs Ipswich:

"He [the goalkeeper] was waiting as the referee told me to put the ball down, and he was still trying to make eye contact with me and try to smile and everything. And then he ended up being more on his right side of the goal. I never look at the goalkeeper in the first instance.

"I speak always with the goalkeepers coach for him to make me understand what's the most difficult thing that this goalkeeper could get, because they see the penalties, and he said, 'Look, he's very tall. It's very difficult for him to just go when you kick the ball, even being tall, to react to that'. So he needs to sort of like have movement on himself.

"So when I did, when I did that and I went to do the jump, he was running into the middle and he was stuck on his left foot. So basically he couldn't get back there [to his right side].

"Sometimes I just choose a side and I go and I don't do the jump and I just choose a side. But I think I have more success doing this than just choosing a side and going."

"I like to score penalties because people always moan about me scoring penalties so I like to make them moan about it!" 🤣🤣🤣

🚨🎙️ | Bruno Fernandes on becoming captain:

"I haven't changed the way I behave on or off the pitch because I got the captaincy...

"I was very lucky that through that period I've had a lot of respect from Harry [Maguire] by the way I treated him andthe way he treated me."

🚨🎙️ | Bruno Fernandes on his hat-trick:

"Obviously in football you want to win trophies with your team, but individual accolades are always nice to have them even more when we talk about the PFA award that is voted by the players that play against you.

"It's a different feeling when you get it. And then wrapping all that with the win at Old Trafford, scoring three goals, I couldn't ask for any better.”

🚨 Rashford has started the season with a point to prove. 👀🔴

No goal or assist yet, but his performances have been far more encouraging than the numbers suggest.

🚨🎙Bryan Mbeumo on Michael Carrick:

"He [Carrick] is very calm. He rarely shows his anger. I've maybe seen him once or twice [angry]. That's his style. I'm very calm myself, so it doesn't bother me."

🔴 There’s something quietly impressive developing in United’s midfield.

Kobbie Mainoo and Youri Tielemans combined for 17 possessions won — the highest total by any midfield duo in the league. 🥇

That defensive work gives Bruno Fernandes more freedom to influence the game higher up.

It’s still early, but the signs are promising. ❤️

Give this midfield time to grow. 👀