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Bruno Fernandes wants to bring back Fergie Time at Man Utd and calls on team-mates to show some ‘belief’
BRUNO FERNANDES wants to lead Manchester United into a new era of last-gasp Fergie Time heroics.
And if he does, it will answer the one question which had him stumped after his midweek Europa League late supershow: Whether Red Devils boss Ruben Amorim wears a watch.
In two triumphant decades under Sir Alex Ferguson, even those with only a passing interest in football had no doubt.
Barely a week went by without football’s greatest gaffer very publicly checking his wrist to make a point about stoppage time — and so often it ended with a late goal for United.
There has been precious little of it in the decade since Ferguson’s final farewell — but now playmaker Fernandes has made it his mission to bring them back under the latest man to fill Fergie’s boots.
There have already been murmurings of it in just 16 games with the Portuguese manager in charge — five late-show strikes, in fact.
And after his 92nd-minute goal to beat Scottish giants Rangers made him the latest name on the list — in every respect — Fernandes knew the subject of United’s stoppage-time history was coming.
As a keen student of the club’s past, yes, of course he was well aware of Fergie Time.
But no, there hadn’t been enough of it under Amorim for him to know if his boss even had a watch, never mind had cause to check it in front of any watching official.
Yet as he vowed to turn grand finales from exception to the norm once more, he will not be in the dark for much longer.
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It might not be good for the nerves, but that is part of the deal for any club with pretensions of greatness. And United certainly have plenty of them.
Fernandes, 30, admitted: “I think that, ever since I have been at this club, that has always been a part of things.
“We always talk about Sir Alex’s time, you know, when he looks at his watch and United will grab a goal for sure.
“I don’t know if the manager has a watch to look at, but obviously we need to have that belief and even more like this — because we knew we still had two or three minutes to play.
“So you have to try and go forward to get one because you can only win games where you’re at this club — nothing less is expected of you.
“Of course, we know we are not in the position this club was many, many years ago and have a long, long way to go as a team — but we are on our path.
“We know it won’t be as easy as they made it look, because obviously they had great players in the past at this club and a great manager who led the club to many trophies.
“But we have to make our own way. And as tough as it is, and as difficult as it can be, we are going to fight for this club to try and make it back.”
In fairness, United have come up with the goods in the dying embers of the game more than once this season.
Admittedly, not quite so dramatically as against Rangers — but late enough nonetheless at Manchester City and Liverpool and at home to struggling Southampton in the Premier League.
All thanks to Ivory Coast winger Amad Diallo, as well.
Oh, plus a late winner over Czech side Viktoria Plzen from Danish striker Rasmus Hojlund a fortnight before Christmas.
It’s the games in between that have been the problem, powder-puff defeats to the likes of Wolves, Bournemouth and Brighton.
The last of them finally pushed Amorim over the edge, as the affable gaffer gave way to a steam-coming-out-of-his-ears attack dog.
So furious that he smashed a television on the dressing-room wall and slammed his flops as the worst United team in history.
When the red mist cleared, Amorim relented and admitted maybe he should have taken a breath before sounding off.
Yet far from taking the huff, Fernandes was right behind his fellow countryman.
He added: “I am pretty sure it was in a moment of rage.
“I am Portuguese and I know that pretty quickly the blood comes up, so it’s just in that moment.
“I was here with Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, one of the calmest people I’ve met, and he had this sometimes, too.
“As a manager you depend on the results and sometimes you need to have these kinds of words to your players.
“It wasn’t anything out of context — or something we didn’t deserve in the moment.”
The challenge now is to make sure there is no cause for them again…
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Tottenham star Bergvall reveals he has no regret over snubbing Barcelona despite his side’s shoddy start to season
LUCAS BERGVALL reckons his rapid rise at injury-ravaged Tottenham shows he was right to snub Barcelona.
The Swede, 18, looked set to join the LaLiga giants last January but opted for North London at the eleventh hour.
And one key reason for the change of heart was a feeling that his chances of getting game-time were higher at Spurs.
Bergvall officially moved from Djurgarden in July for £8.5million — and is set to make his 27th appearance of the season in today’s Premier League clash with Leicester.
He has started five of Spurs’ last six games, netting his first goal for the club in a 1-0 win over Liverpool earlier this month, in the first leg of the Carabao Cup semi-final.
Bergvall said: “When I decided, I thought that Tottenham was the best club for me. It is a great club with good ambitions.
“I feel I am getting better every day. Training with all the boys and all the staff, I’m getting used to it.
“It’s not an easy change coming from the Swedish league.
“Everything is different. The running, the physical part… everything.”
There was a lot of excitement around Bergvall when he first arrived, particularly after rejecting a club as mighty as Barca.
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His new team-mate Pape Matar Sarr added to the hype in August when asked which of the club’s summer signings had impressed him most.
The Senegal star — who is a doubt for today’s game — said: “Lucas. He is a really great player.
“I really love his style. He’s never under pressure when he’s on the ball. Technically, he’s fantastic. He’s bound to be one of the world’s top players. He’s got all the assets. With work, he’ll get to the very top.”
It was some appraisal from the 22-year-old and, in truth, it took a little bit of time for Bergvall to live up to it with some underwhelming early-season displays as he got to grips with his new environment.
In November’s 3-2 defeat against Galatasaray, for example, he was guilty of holding on to the ball too long in the lead-up to the Turkish hosts’ second goal.
But he kept racking up the substitute appearances and making the odd start here and there, learning, improving, adapting, before really kicking on over the last six weeks.
Bergvall’s breakthrough moment came against Liverpool when he netted the only goal to give Spurs a precious lead going into the second leg at Anfield a week on Thursday.
Since then, he has been a regular name in Postecoglou’s starting XI.
Spurs’ injury crisis boosted his chances of playing but there have times when he has been picked ahead of the likes of England star James Maddison purely on form.
Bergvall looked exhausted as he dropped to the turf at the end of Thursday’s crucial 3-2 win over Hoffenheim in the Europa League.
That victory means a top-eight spot and a path straight into the last 16, without having to worry about a pesky play-off next month, is within Spurs’ grasp, with Thursday’s final group game against Elfsborg to come.
But it was also a vital victory after a horror run of results which saw Spurs win just one of their last ten Premier League games, plummeting down the table and even sparking talk of the club finding themselves dragged into relegation scrap.
And Bergvall feels it is vital to take the boost in morale from Hoffenheim into today’s game against the struggling Foxes and rediscover get that winning feeling in the league once more.
Three points would also ease the considerable pressure on Aussie manager Postecoglou, who is facing a testing time midway through his second season at Tottenham.
Bergvall added: “It was an important game in Europe, we needed to win to keep going.
“For the confidence too, we’ve had a tough time in the last few weeks, so it was really important.
“It’s difficult. We have 11 or 12 fit senior players, maybe more, it’s a tough period. We just have to keep going and fight.
“Especially now in tough times, when we have a lot of injuries, everyone needs to perform.
“We have to keep going. We don’t have any other option. He’s the coach and of course we work for him.”
Bruno Fernandes calls on Man Utd team-mates to ‘show some balls’ and says he AGREES on Amorim’s ‘worst side ever’ blast
BRUNO FERNANDES backed Ruben Amorim’s blast at his stumbling stars and stressed: You’ve got to have the balls to play for Manchester United.
Boss Amorim caused a storm last week when he branded United’s fall-guys the worst side in the club’s history.
He later admitted he went too far — yet Fernandes reckons he was bang on.
And the Red Devils skipper said: “The reality is to play here you have to have that pressure, you have to have the balls to play for this club — that is what it is.
“You have to feel that in every moment in every game it is a new chance to bring us back to the position we deserve.
“Unfortunately for us this season there have been too many ups and downs and every time we look like getting there, we get punched again and go down.
“What we have to do is every time we take a punch and go down, we must get up and try to punch back.”
Fernandes certainly did that with his last-gasp winner in a dramatic Europa League clash with Rangers on Thursday.
And he admitted Amorim’s outburst after last weekend’s 3-1 loss to Brighton inspired him to those final-second heroics.
Fernandes added: “I don’t want to hear my manager saying certain things about the team because I know he doesn’t feel it.
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“But he made himself part of that and when the manager makes himself part of what he’s saying, no one can get angry or disappointed by it.
“When he says ‘the worst team in Manchester’, he speaks about the position we are in and when you look at where we are in the league we ARE in the worst position we’ve ever been.
“So you have to take it, that’s the reality unfortunately. We are in this position for a long time and the club doesn’t belong there.
“But we have to accept that and understand we need to push ourselves to much bigger things and higher positions.”
Man Utd ratings: Bruno Fernandes captain fantastic in last-gasp win but Harry Maguire asleep in dreadful cameo
MANCHESTER UNITED all but sealed automatic qualification to the last 16 of the Europa League thanks to a last-gasp win over Rangers.
The Red Devils welcomed the Scottish giants to Old Trafford in the penultimate group match of their European campaign on Thursday night.
And they took a giant step towards a top-eight finish thanks to a 2-1 win at Old Trafford.
A calamitous own second-half goal from Gers stopper Jack Butland broke the deadlock.
Cyriel Dessers thought he’d rescued a point for the visitors in the 88th minute before Bruno Fernandes broke the hearts of the travelling Teddy Bears four minutes later.
SunSport’s Ken Lawrence was in attendance for the Battle of Britain and is on hand to rate and slate the performances of Ruben Amorim‘s side.
Altay Bayindir – 7
The Turk is a better keeper than No 1 Andre Onana, especially dealing with corners.
Took a sore one colliding with Toby Collyer showing exactly that.
Leny Yoro – 5
The £52m central defender was deployed on the right side of Rubin Amorim’s three-man rearguard.
Youngster was shaky at times but looked better when he had the ball.
Matthijs de Ligt – 4
Terrible early touch stranded Toby Collyer – Nicolas Raskin’s even worse touch let him off the hook.
Hooked at the break – no surprise there, although Amorim said afterwards that he “felt something”.
Lisandro Martinez – 5
Once known as The Butcher of Amsterdam but he’s long lost that scary presence.
Another one who doesn’t look happy in the new system.
Amad Diallo – 7
Looks a bit different these days since his tough time on loan at Rangers three years ago.
Not on wonder-boy form this time but still a threat.
Toby Collyer – 6
Made his first appearance on a European stage and the boy done good.
The 21 year old is a very decent emerging midfielder.
Christian Eriksen – 6
Turns 33 next month and his legs aren’t really up to playing in centre midfield.
He’s always been a creator anyway but he dug in.
Diogo Dalot – 5
Started out on his wrong foot as a left wing back.
Switched midway through the second half and looked far more comfortable.
Bruno Fernandes – 9
You wonder if he drives himself as mad as he must do his manager at times. But scored a fantastic winner.
Joshua Zirkzee – 4
Ruben. He’s NOT a centre-forward.
Whatever £36m bought, it wasn’t a natural striker and it’s unfair to be playing him up there on his own.
Alejandro Garnacho – 8
Busy and focused – didn’t look like any talk of being sold to Chelsea was bothering him.
On this sparkling evidence United would be mad to let him go anywhere.
SUBS
Maguire (for De Ligt 46) 3 Totally asleep for Rangers’ equaliser.
Malacia (for Yoro 56) 5 : Looking happier now injury worries over
Ugarte (for Collyer 73) 5 : Put in a solid short spell.
Mainoo (Eriksen 73) 5 : Added strength and mobility.
Hojlund (for Zirkzee 82) 5 : Ran about a bit – he’s good at that.
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