Ranking every Bruno Fernandes assist in 2025-26 as Man Utd skipper equals Prem record

 Bruno Fernandes has one Premier League Player of the Year award in the bag while having equalled the assists record…

The Red Devils skipper has 20 assists this season, double the number of anyone in the Premier League not named Rayan Cherki.

Two against Aston Villa in March saw the skipper equal and then break David Beckham’s club record from 1999-2000.

With four since, Fernandes now needs one more to set a new Premier League record, one he currently shares with Kevin De Bruyne and Thierry Henry.

That’s not enough for some people, like Paul Parker, who branded the ‘so-called playmaker’ a ‘brainless liability’. Seriously, are you ok, Paul?

Anyway, we rate Fernandes rather higher. Indeed, we’ve ranked his many assists this season, from the tap of a dead-ball, to an added-time moment of genius…

20) Crystal Palace (a) 

On the face of it, Fernandes just toe-pokes a dead ball a couple of yards for Mason Mount to strike through the crumbliest of walls.

Has he seen something in Palace’s previous set-ups or preparation for this free-kick? Perhaps. But in terms of execution, it is certainly his simplest assist.

19) Bournemouth (h)

The first of three corner kicks, all in-swingers from the left, hung up to the far post. United fill the front half of the goal for Casemiro, on this occasion, to wander in at the back post and nod an easily-saveable header at Djordje Petrovic, who gifts the Brazilian a goal and Bruno an assist.

18) Nottingham Forest (a)

The same delivery as Bournemouth onto the same head, this time, United loading up the far post. Only above the Bournemouth assist on account of all the boiled p*ss in prompted at the City Ground.

17) Fulham (h)

A free-kick just to the side of the Fulham box on the by-line, hung up for Casemiro to attack. Looked simple – because it was – but the position might have tempted some to complicate matters. Instead, had Casemiro not headed in Fernandes’s dink, Harry Maguire would have.

16) Newcastle (a)

Set-piece again, a free-kick near the right corner of the Toon box, delivered flat and quick into the path of Casemiro, this time attacking the near post, making up for conceding a penalty moments before for which Paul Parker may never forgive him.

15) Aston Villa (h)

The same routine as Newcastle above, only this time from a corner, with Casemiro darting across the near post to glance home Fernandes’s flatter delivery. Some header, that.

14) Tottenham Hotspur (a)

A similar corner-kick to the others, this time on to Matthijs De Ligt’s head, but ranked higher because it came in added-time, just after Spurs had gone in front.