{"id":5009,"date":"2026-05-23T11:22:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:22:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:22:40","slug":"bruno-fernandes-man-utd-midfielder-named-premier-league-player-of-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=5009","title":{"rendered":"Bruno Fernandes: Man Utd midfielder named Premier League player of the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fernandes has created more chances &#8211; 132 &#8211; than any other player in the Premier League this season. He has 43 more than the second best, Liverpool&#8217;s Dominik Szoboszlai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fernandes is the first United player to win the award since defender Nemanja Vidic in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The winner is decided after public votes are combined with those from a panel of football experts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal&#8217;s David Raya, Gabriel and Declan Rice, Manchester City&#8217; Erling Haaland and Antoine Semenyo, Brentford&#8217;s Igor Thiago, and Nottingham Forest&#8217;s Morgan Gibbs-White were also shortlisted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">United travel to Brighton in their final game of the season on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fernandes has created more chances &#8211; 132 &#8211; than any other player in the Premier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}