Roy Keane said Bruno Fernandes did the opposite of what 99/100 players would have done in Man Utd win

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Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes picked the perfect time to deliver his first assist of the season.

Bruno Fernandes has been the Premier League’s top creative player ever since he signed for Manchester United in January 2020.

So it was a statistical oddity that Fernandes had not provided an assist in his opening seven Premier League games this season.

The Portugal international chose the perfect time to end that unwanted streak, providing the assist for Harry Maguire to score the winning goal away at Liverpool.

The way Fernandes provided the assist was pretty special, and received praise from club legend Roy Keane.

Roy Keane on Bruno Fernandes

Bruno Fernandes lofted the ball into Harry Maguire with a first time pass after a Liverpool clearance had rebounded to him outside the box.

Fernandes struck his half-volleyed pass with pinpoint precision, finding Maguire who was waiting at the back post to nod the ball back across the goalkeeper into the net.

Speaking to Sky Sports after the game, Roy Keane praised Fernandes for having the temerity to try such a pass, let alone execute it.

Keane said: “If Bruno doesn’t get that right we are sitting there saying ‘you’ve got to take a touch’.

“The top players take risks. 99 times out of 100 players would have controlled that [first]. With the ball coming at him, it is not easy to do that.”

Fellow pundit Jamie Redknapp explained how Fernandes’ quick pass back into the Liverpool box caught their defence out.

Redknapp said: “What he does, it doesn’t give the Liverpool defence a chance to set themselves. They haven’t got time to react.

“Virgil Van Dijk can’t get to the back post, Konate is on his own.”

Bruno Fernandes enjoying the moment

Bruno Fernandes has not won a game at Anfield since joining United, and experienced the biggest low of his career at this stadium in 2023.

Now after winning with Manchester United away at Liverpool for the first time, Fernandes is determined to enjoy it.

He told BBC Sport: “Obviously I will be smiling when I win games and I will be smiling less when I lose games. I am very, very happy and very pleased with this win.

“We know how difficult it is to win here at Anfield. It has been ten years since the last time the club won here, we have put that aside now, happy with that.

“I’m enjoying the moment but I am now already thinking of the next one because if you don’t win the next one we are going to get back in the same feeling and moment we were in before.”