Bruno Fernandes is focusing on Europa League glory after serving to lead Manchester United again to the Champions League. The midfielder scored in United’s 2-Zero win at Leicester on Sunday as Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s facet sealed third spot within the Premier League, which means they’ll return to Europe’s elite competitors subsequent season after a 12 months’s absence. United lead LASK 5-Zero from the primary leg of their last-16 Europa League tie and can face Istanbul Basaksehir or Copenhagen within the quarter-finals as a part of a mini-tournament as a consequence of be performed in Germany from the quarter-finals onwards.
Fernandes has scored 10 targets since becoming a member of from Sporting Lisbon in January to encourage United’s top-four return and now he needs silverware.
“Now our focus is on the Europa League as a result of this can be a actually good trophy and we need to win,” he instructed MUTV.
“I got here to Manchester to win trophies. We have to play each recreation to win. If we go into the Europa League and win each recreation, we all know we’ll win the trophy.”
Fernandes’s penalty and Jesse Lingard’s late aim despatched United into the Champions League at Leicester’s expense on the ultimate day.
The midfielder is wanting ahead to creating the step as much as the Champions League subsequent season.
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“In fact, enjoying Champions League is all the time particular and I hope it may be with the supporters, that will probably be extra particular,” he mentioned.
“We need to be in the most effective video games, in the most effective European competitors. Nothing in opposition to the Europa League, however everybody is aware of the most effective competitors is the Champions League.”
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