{"id":54958,"date":"2025-10-19T04:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/fernandes-maintains-confidence-will-continue-as-uniteds-penalty-taker\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:50:38","slug":"fernandes-maintains-confidence-will-continue-as-uniteds-penalty-taker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/fernandes-maintains-confidence-will-continue-as-uniteds-penalty-taker\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernandes maintains confidence: will continue as United&#8217;s penalty taker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bruno Fernandes Will Maintain His Role as Penalty Taker at Manchester United<\/h2>\n\nDespite recent misses, Bruno Fernandes will remain the primary penalty taker for Manchester United, as confirmed by coach Ruben Amorim.\n\nFernandes has struggled from the penalty spot this season, missing shots against Fulham and Brentford.\n\nThe slip-up at Craven Cottage resulted in a 1-1 draw, while the error against Brentford occurred when the score was 2-1 before the home team extended the lead to 3-1.\n\nAmorim, who will lead his team to face Liverpool this Sunday, has assured that Fernandes will be in charge of penalties at Anfield.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>He is the main scorer. He scores many goals. If necessary, we can change. But I fully trust that Bruno will solve that.<\/p><cite>Ruben Amorim<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe image shows Bruno Fernandes, who will continue to be Amorim&#8217;s first choice for penalties.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1018%2Fr1562158_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Bruno Fernandes\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Bruno Fernandes seguir\u00e1 siendo la primera opci\u00f3n para los penales.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nFernandes&#8217; two misses, added to Bryan Mbeumo&#8217;s error in the Carabao Cup penalty shootout against Grimsby Town, have been costly for Amorim in this difficult start to the season.\n\nThe Portuguese midfielder did manage to convert a penalty in the 3-2 victory over Burnley in August.\n\nBefore this season, his last penalty miss in the Premier League was against Chelsea in December 2023.\n\nAmorim acknowledges the difficulty this represents for Fernandes, but trusts in his ability to overcome this hurdle.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I know it&#8217;s not easy for him. But I think he&#8217;s taken 70 penalties. He misses about eight. Two with me. So I&#8217;m really annoyed about that. But he&#8217;s very confident. He&#8217;s training penalties. He&#8217;s trying to understand that people are watching the way he takes penalties. He&#8217;ll be ready.<\/p><cite>Ruben Amorim<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFernandes is a sure starter against Liverpool on Sunday, in a match where United will seek their first win at Anfield since 2016.\n\nThe situation is different for Kobbie Mainoo and Joshua Zirkzee, who have had few opportunities this season.\n\nThere is speculation about the possibility that both players could leave Old Trafford in the January transfer window, but Amorim has insisted that he &#8220;needs everyone&#8221; in his squad.\n\nThe coach understands the media noise and expectations, but emphasizes the importance of maintaining team unity.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruno Fernandes Will Maintain His Role as Penalty Taker at Manchester United Despite recent misses, Bruno Fernandes will remain the primary penalty taker for Manchester United, as confirmed by coach Ruben Amorim. Fernandes has struggled from the penalty spot this season, missing shots against Fulham and Brentford. The slip-up at Craven Cottage resulted in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[397,138,143,9945],"class_list":{"0":"post-54958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-bruno-fernandes","8":"tag-liverpool","9":"tag-manchester-united","10":"tag-penalty-taker"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}