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While Portugal players were preparing to fly to Ljubljana for their friendly with Slovenia on Monday, Bruno Fernandes was strolling around Alderley Edge with his wife, Ana.
Fernandes was one of eight Portugal players granted permission to skip the 2-0 defeat on Tuesday night. He played and scored in the 5-2 victory over Sweden in Guimaraes last week.
The 29-year-old has already played 45 games this season for club and country. Manchester United will hope to play a dozen more matches this term with the FA Cup final, then there is the European Championship and a potential seven-match run to the final in Berlin.
So Fernandes could clock in 64 games this season, six down from the 70 he played in last season. In more than four years at United, he has not suffered a single injury.
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"I just have to be grateful for my father and my mum because they made me the right way, the strong way," Fernandes laughed in the mixed zone after two draining hours against Liverpool. Fernandes had run his socks off and, it seemed, his boots. He strode into the area in flip flops.
It is telling that three of the five outfield players who lasted the duration of the epic against Liverpool - Fernandes, Diogo Dalot and Alejandro Garnacho - have not succumbed to an injury that has prevented them from playing in a season where United have recorded 51 separate cases of injury or illness.
The trio have young children. Garnacho and Dalot welcomed their firstborns, Enzo and Clara, in October and November. Fernandes has a seven-year-old daughter, Matilde, and three-year-old son Goncalo.
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