With 43 minutes on the clock, the Portugal international, who has now registered 100 direct goal contributions in United colours, swept Erik ten Hag&aposs side into the lead from just inside the penalty area. He received Christian Eriksen&aposs clever pass inside, took a touch to open his body up and curled a lovely right-footed effort into the far corner.
Fernandes, who scored a controversial leveller during United&aposs 2-1 derby day win over Manchester City on Saturday, returned to his natural attacking-midfield berth against Palace and bossed proceedings inside the opening 45 minutes, leading by example with the captain&aposs armband on.
His goal arrived just three minutes after goalkeeper David de Gea had made a stunning save to thwart Odsonne Edouard, meaning the deadlock-breaker arrived at a significant juncture in the contest. It was an excellent finish from Fernandes and United&aposs supporters were quick to wax lyrical about the quality of it.
Below, MEN Sport has taken a close look to see what they had to say:
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