Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes completed 50 assists in the Premier League on Sunday when his team defeated Leicester City 3-0 at the King Power Stadium. Apart from scoring, the Portuguese international also contributed two assists in the win that took United's point tally to 37 in the league.
Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney, David Beckham, Paul Scholes and Eric Cantona are the other Manchester United stars to register 50 assists in the Premier League. Bruno Fernandes is likely to go past Cantona (51) and Scholes (55) in the tally while it remains to be seen if he can challenge Beckham's tally of 80. Wayne Rooney got 93 assists against his name while Ryan Giggs got 162, records showed.
He's a special guy in that aspect, he is always ready, he can recover quite well," United manager Ruben Amorim said of his captain. "I don't know the future but I'm reading what the performance department tell me, the numbers, and then what I see in the game."I always see a Bruno that is dangerous and one Bruno that can recover in every situation. So he is going to stay there. I already knew Bruno. What surprised me the most is the way he works every day," he said.
Looking to win back-to-back matches in all competitions for the first time since late January, United went ahead in the 28th minute through Dane Hojlund's first goal since mid-December.The beleaguered hosts never threatened an equaliser, with Garnacho ending the match as a contest in the 67th minute - the first time the Argentina international has found the net since the end of November in all competitions.
Fernandes put the icing on the cake with a fine late third as United cruised to a win that moved Ruben Amorim's side up to 13th while 19th-placed Leicester slipped closer to relegation.United came into the contest looking to try to salvage some pride from a disappointing campaign that sees them languishing in the bottom half of the table.
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Hojlund's first goal in 22 appearances in all competitions edged United in front.Garnacho had the ball in the net early in the second half but the referee ruled out his well-taken finish for offside.The 20-year-old did not have to wait long for a first goal in 24 matches in all competitions, however, as he collected Fernandes' pass before drilling home.Fernandes, who has been in fine scoring form, was not to be upstaged though with the goal of the night late on to give the United following one more reason to cheer after scoring a hat-trick in Thursday's 4-1 Europa League win over Real Sociedad.For Leicester, relegation seems inevitable as they became the first team in English top-flight history to lose seven home games in a row without scoring.