"Nottingham Forest was targeting him," Erik ten Hag on Bruno Fernandes

Manchester United claimed a last minute victory over Nottingham Forest in the FA Cup fifth round on Wednesday. The visitors scored the only goal of the match via a Casemiro header in the 89th minute. The assist was delivered from Bruno Fernandes whose participation in the fixture was in doubt before the match.

The Portuguese midfielder picked up an injury against Fulham. Erik ten Hag believes that Nottingham Forest players were very harsh on the Man Utd captain, and claimed that he was suffering from a serious injury. Fulham's social media accounts also poked fun at the midfielder, which did not go down well with the Man Utd boss.

"I don't want to go into that because you saw that Forest was targeting him, so I don't tell what he has but it was a serious injury," Ten Hag said.

"There were many fouls on him. Maybe I am a little bit too tough but when he has the ball they were really tight on him."

"Then I see that serious media criticise him and social media is pathetic and it can't be.

"He has a serious injury but he continued to play on Saturday and today he also fought to be part of the game and he has a very high pain threshold.

"Last year he did also something similar against Spurs and it shows his leadership because that expresses his character and that is very good when you are a leader."