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Season Average Rating
- Appearances
- 54
- Goals
- 13
- Assists
- 18
- Yellow cards
- 9
- Red cards
- 3
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Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) discuss United's fantastic win away against Athletic Club in the semi-final of the Europa League.
They also pick out the positives of United's 4-3 loss away at Brentford, and Nik reviews a day out at Old Trafford watching Manchester United Women qualify for the Champions League.
Without a doubt, ETH struggled to utilize him effectively. Last season, he was often pushed out to the right to accommodate Weghorst.
His first 12 months were definitely better IMO. He wasn't just prolific, his general play was also fantastic. That started tailing off a bit in the second half of 20/21 where he was still scoring a lot of goals but his overall performances were getting patchy, and that's largely how he's been since.
Why would Amorim get credit? Bruno always been this good.
Reality…this is by distance best run of form since season one and it’s been really good to watch. To give Bruno credit also, Every element of him emotionally look better. He used to look someone playing in spite of team, now he looks like player playing with team to inspire team.
Things looking better under Amorim, we look like a team, albeit not great one yet. It can see formula.
Reality…this is by distance best run of form since season one and it’s been really good to watch. To give Bruno credit also, Every element of him emotionally look better. He used to look someone playing in spite of team, now he looks like player playing with team to inspire team.
Things looking better under Amorim, we look like a team, albeit not great one yet. It can see formula.
Yep, he's been great under Amorim and I agree we seem to be moving in the right direction under RA. I hope he's given the opportunity to see the job through. Winning the EL would be huge for the club this season.
Bournemouth 1:1 Man Utd
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We're turning our most creative player into a Portuguese Harry Winks and calling it progress. Mind boggles. Was massively off the level needed. Yet I am not surprised since this team seems happier to make five yard passes than actually try to score.
Poor first half as a 10.
Moved back in CM, goes on to be our best player.
Moved back in CM, goes on to be our best player.
It wasn't a very good performance, but he had 7 key passes and was still doing whatever he wanted most of the game.
Worst game in quite a while from Bruno but he was still one of our best players and the only one capable of making something happen.
I think we know for sure now he doesn't suit this 10 role. It exposes his one big weakness really, ball carrying.
Keep him in CM Ruben.
Keep him in CM Ruben.
Get him back to CM asap
Not his best day, but wouldn’t have wanted Bruno to waste his best day on this occasion. He’ll be up for it in Bilbao.
The game picks up every time he goes from 10 back to CM. Which is why the Ederson links are a bit worrying. We need a progressive passer like Bruno in the CM position if we’re not planning to play him there next season
Bruno on a good day world class , Bruno on a bad day Sunday league .
Respectfully, you don't seem to have a very nuanced view of Bruno and his performances...
Had a good chance to score which he scuffed and then almost scored with a worldie.
Surround him with more quality please.
Surround him with more quality please.
This video is the answer to the question why is Bruno Fernandes always at the top of chances created but never anywhere near the top of the assist charts.
This video is the answer to the question why is Bruno Fernandes always at the top of chances created but never anywhere near the top of the assist charts.
Yup. Also a good riposte to assorted eejits in this thread who try to pretend that key passes are meaningless or Bruno somehow produces key passes that are uniquely more difficult to convert than other players high up the list of key passes.
From chances created video I’d judge as follows…
Should be goals 9, 15, 21, 26, 28, 32
Good chances 1,2, 13, 14, 27, 30, 33
Little Chance 4, 5, 11, 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29
Not chance 3, 8, 10, 17, 22,
Portugal 6,7, 24, 31, 34
The question really is, is this specific to Bruno? Or wouldn’t all attack players have similar videos?
Should be goals 9, 15, 21, 26, 28, 32
Good chances 1,2, 13, 14, 27, 30, 33
Little Chance 4, 5, 11, 12, 16, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29
Not chance 3, 8, 10, 17, 22,
Portugal 6,7, 24, 31, 34
The question really is, is this specific to Bruno? Or wouldn’t all attack players have similar videos?
Notable is how infrequently Bruno and Hojlund connect. There's no relationship there at all. I don’t know why but it's definitely a thing.
It’s not about a relationship. It’s about Hojlund’s movement being crap. Hence nobody else is creating for him either.
It isn’t specific to Bruno. What is specific to Bruno is the rate at which he creates chances, though, where he is basically as good as it gets.
That plus those exact same chances created in a team with one or two high quality goalscorers would see a number of those key passes converted into goals (not to mention that better movement ahead of him would increase his key passes). All of which would get Bruno very close to the top of the assists table as well.
All CF’s miss big chances. Remember a season Aubamayang was top scorer in league but missed around 20 big chances, we had Lukaku who missed loads, City had Aguero in list of top chances missed. It’s normal thing.
But top CFs also put themselves in positions to create these openings regularly, whereas our frontline doesn't.
I’d fancy Aguero to be more likely to convert any given chance than, say, Garnacho. And that’s not even getting into how much easier it is to create for strikers with better movement than our options.
The video above is proof that most key passes aren't good chances to score. I counted 35 key passes in this video between the Europa League, the Premier League, and internationals, and I wouldn't expect most of them to result in goals 90% of the time. That's why the xA and xAG are better qualifiers of what's really a good chance.
Bruno has 84 key passes in the PL alone, but they only translate to 7xA and 7.6xAG. He's outperforming both of these stats as he is on 9 assists, which puts him with the 4th most assists this season. The PL also has him on 14 big chances created and his hit rate seems to be in line with other players at the top of that list. There's not an underperofrmance here unlike the last couple of seasons, especially in 22/23.
Bruno has 84 key passes in the PL alone, but they only translate to 7xA and 7.6xAG. He's outperforming both of these stats as he is on 9 assists, which puts him with the 4th most assists this season. The PL also has him on 14 big chances created and his hit rate seems to be in line with other players at the top of that list. There's not an underperofrmance here unlike the last couple of seasons, especially in 22/23.
Glad someone said it. That's some crazy high expectation to think most of these should lead to scoring chances.
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This compilation is one of the worst compilations I have seen which are trying to make a specific point.
Yeah possibly.
It's strange though that two professionals with a load of coaches around them can't figure out this problem(get Hojlund moving better) and get the two connecting somehow. Your 10 and 9 rarely linking is a huge issue.
But again, this isn’t a Bruno issue. Hojlund needs to improve his movement, full stop. Or we need to sign someone better. Ideally both.
So basically that video is a pretty worthless piece that really demonstrates nothing that is not the same for any other similar player.
Agreed.
This might actually be the worst take ever posted on the internet about a player, congratulations.
Sure, there were some odd picks in that Twitter video above... But the notion that most players would have a similar compilation from less than a season's worth of football is pretty wild
Sporting won the title the year Bruno left the club.
Your point being?