Man Utd striker coach McCarthy: Fernandes always seeks extra drills

Manchester United ace Bruno Fernandes requested extra shooting practice this season.

The Portuguese enjoyed a great campaign from a creative perspective, topping the Premier League charts for chance creation.

However, Fernandes and his teammates did not have the most prolific of campaigns on the goal scoring front, despite finishing in the top four.

'I coach stuff that can benefit them, to add to their training methods," first team attacking coach Benni McCarthy told 947 Joburg.

'A lot of pressure was on me because these are world class players you're working with and you need to know your stuff. I just put on stuff I would have loved when I was a striker. Put up these kind of specific drills the strikers love.

Sometimes we go in games without touching the ball a lot, but you get that one opportunity and you stick it away. So not the most complicated drills - just simple drills strikers face seven out of 10 times in the games.

The more consistent you become, the easier it becomes in the game. Bruno was the one who told me he wanted to stay behind.

After a while, it started catching on and half the team was coming, even the midfielders, even the defenders, to do finishing drills because it was fun and exciting.

There was a lot of repetition and we started making it into competitions, so every day we need to have a winner and that's how I got everyone engaged.

Bruno is there every single day and Rashy [Marcus Rashford] followed. We created that culture where the finishing drills were about competitiveness and the consistency of hitting the target or making the goalkeeper move."