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2024-25 Performances


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5.2 Season Average Rating
Appearances
17
Goals
3
Assists
7
Yellow cards
3
Red cards
2
Dribbling is not the be all and end all.

Bruno is far more than just a creative/productive player. He has 3 advantages over most of his comparable peers in the PL:

1) He is much better defensively

Tackles and interceptions per 90:

Bruno: 3.2
Ødegaard: 2.1
Palmer: 1.1
De Bruyne: 1.0


2) He is a lot more involved in the game

Passes per 90:

De Bruyne: 60.2 (BIG outlier season! He's normally below 45)
Bruno: 49.7
Ødegaard: 34.5
Palmer: 34.3

3) His injury record
No need to elaborate, I hope..

I didn't say dribbling it's that, I've mentioned because it's one of the "easier" ways to loose the ball when you try a difficult move to create some space or advantage with an offensive midfielder. And I also mentioned to keep it under control, meaning to handle against oposition coming after you without instantly releasing it. Bruno does not risk some difficult passes because he always "sees" a pass or feels the urge to do sthg and help his team, he many times doesn't have the dribbling and control of others in his role to keep it. That is why is so improtant to take this in account as a team to provide him a better platfform for his style.

You are too focus in stats and for instance Bruno as much as he can steal many balls, he might create a gap while failing to do it because of not being as intelligent as other on how to move properly in such regard and command others to do so. BTW, I'm not saying that he sucks at this department, but very much like his offensive output, he put his heart on his sleeve and he indeed many times presses or tries to steal it, but not few times in a chaotic way.

Bruno more than anything needs a better management of his decisions and acknowledge better in what he is great at and in what he isn't

PD: When I'm analizying his traits, atributes and his deficiencies, I'm not just comparing with current players this season or even prior ones, but more in comparison with players in similar roles since ever. That's why the constant refference of current stats doesn't help to get what I'm talking about and never paints the whole picture for any player, on any role.
 
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Love me some Bruno prop guys

The remontada under Amorim will feed generations

Although some people will still try to downplay his 30 g/a league seasons because "he
loses the ball often" or something
 
I don't disagree with that. But what top-team plays with two workhorses to free-up a classic #10 nowadays? This is the more pertinent question. Are we building castles in the sand (like the scousers did with Gerrard)? It's a question for Amorim, i guess. If he makes it tick, all is good. If he doesn't, we'll keep having the same boring discussions. People laugh at McFred now, but, back then, we had threads about how we function better with them in the centre of the park. Perhaps, they weren't the cause of our malaise, but a symptom of trying to play to our best players' (not just Bruno's) strengths.
They don’t have to be workhorses though. They just have to be actual midfielders with a set up that allows a midfield to function. Which we haven’t had for almost 18 months.
 
Europa League = 3gp - 1 assist
PAOK - 1 assist

Premier League - 11gp , 2 goals (one penalty), 3 assists
Southampton (bottom 5 team) - 1 assist
Brentford - 1 assist
Chelsea - 1 goal (penalty shot)
Leicester (bottom 5 team) - 1 goal, 1 assist

EFL Cup - 2gp - 2 goals, 2 assists
Barnsley (3rd division team) - 2 assists
Leicester b team - 2 goals

Is this seriously what the Bruno stat warriors are praising? Looks like a flat track bully who does fk all whenever a half decent team shows up.

His "chances created" stat means fk all. Half (if not more) of the players who the top 10 of these lists are mid players. Take a look at the current list for most chances created this season.

1. Andreas Pereira 30 chances created
2. Kulusevski 30 chances created
3. Palmer 29 chances created
4. Saka 28 chances created
5. Dwight McNeil 26 chances created
6. Leif David 26 chances created
7. Bowen 24 chances created
8. Anthony Gordon 23 chances created
9. Bernardo Silva 23 chances created
10. Tielemans 23 chances created
11. Marcus Tavernier 23 chances created
12. Bruno Fernandes 22 chances created

I guess United should buy back Andreas Pereira?
 
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Now we're gonna have a new motto under Amorim. "Where one moans, everyone moans". We will be an insufferable team to the refs.