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Bruno Fernandes is busting biggest Man United myth with early-season form

November 12, 2020
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Bruno Fernandes is busting biggest Man United myth with early-season form

Bruno Fernandes proved the star of the present once more on Saturday after he scored twice in Manchester United’s 3-1 away victory in opposition to Everton. In that fixture, not solely did he take his tally as much as 18 objectives for United throughout all competitions, however he additionally arrange the third aim and first for summer season recruit Edinson Cavani.

These types of performances have turn out to be a daily incidence for Fernandes in a pink shirt and so they act as a reminder as to why the membership labored so onerous to carry him to the Premier League in January.

He has confirmed to be a key cog inside the tactical make-up of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s facet, effectively transferring the group up the pitch when he’s on the ball, but additionally understanding when to press and which areas of the pitch to guard with out it.

But, it’s his pure attacking output that has made him such a triumph at Outdated Trafford to this point.

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This level is captured within the under collection of visualisations which ranks Fernandes in opposition to different Premier League midfielders this season by way of non-penalty Anticipated Targets (NPxG) per 90, Anticipated Assists (xA) per 90, pictures per 90 and key passes made per 90.

As illustrated, the United man ranks amongst the elite in nearly all of those key attacking departments.

Fernandes’ attacking affect in key areas vs different Premier League midfielders 2020/21
(Picture: @Eoin_OBrien_ – Twitter)

It was an identical case final season for Fernandes, but usually, critics dismissed his attacking affect as a result of perceived excessive proportion of attacking actions that got here as a direct results of a dead-ball conditions.

While the 26-year-old does are usually United’s fundamental man from set-pieces, there wasn’t actually any proof to assist this declare.

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Final season by way of shot-creating actions, which is outlined by FBref/Statsbomb as one of many two offensive actions straight resulting in a shot, reminiscent of a cross, dribble or drawing a foul, Fernandes’ common of 4.Four per 90 ranked 10th within the division for all gamers who had performed 1,000+ league minutes.

But curiously, when these actions had been filtered all the way down to open play solely shot-creating actions, his common of two.95 per 90 ranked 11th within the division.

To this point this season, the United man has elevated his open-play-only shot-creating actions to three.33 per 90 which is the sixth-best within the league.

In consequence, Fernandes will be legitimately thought of as one of many division’s most artistic gamers who doesn’t have to depend on dead-balls conditions to pad out his spectacular attacking numbers. Anybody claiming any completely different would wrestle to seek out any proof which helps their stance.

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