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Bruno Fernandez with the driver across and he's got his goal and Berner's got his goal and Bruno Fernandez has got his assist as well it's 20 for him this season in the Premier League drawing him level with DeBroner and Henri. This is Talk the Devils, the Athletic Show dedicated to Manchester United.

Coming up today, we go inside how Bruno Fernandez equaled the Premier League record

for assists in a season lots of detail in there lots of great data to discuss as well it was a

feel good day in the end wasn't it at ultra affid as Manchester United won at home again

casimir got his emotional farewell bruno Fernandez was presented with a big shirt and a commemoration of the achievement of reaching

these 20 Premier League assists and all the kids were on the pitch and everything.

It was fantastic at Old Trafford on Sunday.

We'll go through all of that.

We're back in the studio here in Manchester.

Laurie and Carl are here and is here at home as well.

One place to start, Carl, and you've been writing about him, Bruno Fernandez is a record equaler. He's made history by becoming just a third player to reach 20 Premier League assists. And you've written a piece about how exactly he's done it. Yep. Been working on this for about four weeks now. And there was genuinely a point. I was like, oh, no, he's not going to do it. He's not going to do it. Another one of your articles just got filed away. There was a point where I showed Critch all of the articles that haven't quite made it. And he laughed at two or three of the headlines there. And I think if he was going to be stuck on 19, I probably would have just done all the misses. Like he should have reached 20, but here's what happened. But he did it, thankfully, I will say when the starting arm got unveiled and I saw Sesco was injured again, I did go, this might be it. Because he had a certain affinity with Chesco. And in the first half, in particular, in Bumo, didn't look quite at the races.

And the second half. Yeah, two efforts in the second half. You're going, oh, this is it. So there's the first one where Amad's done really well to keep the ball in play, and he's just taking a wild swing it, and you're like, it's not his day. and there was another one where

I mean the through ball from Fernandez is fantastic

in Berman doesn't get

he shoots it over the cross you're like it's not his day and there was another one where i mean the through ball from

fernandez is fantastic in boom doesn't get he shoots it over the crossbar and then you can see

fernandez just falls down to his knees it felt like the entirety of old trafford fell down to its

knees at that moment and you're going oh my god this is it this is how chironri's done some hoodoo to

get this done but thankfully it's a great cross amad, you know, tries to get a leg to it and Buma finally does. And then that great moment where everyone goes over to Fernandez and it's like, that's my captain. We've done this for you. Lombon's running all the way from his own goal. I know. Delighted. Lombin's made me laugh because he sort of ran the length of the pitch to go and celebrate with him, got involved in the celebrations,

and then sort of ran the length of the pitch to go and celebrate with him,

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