Aleksandar Mitrovic is already a hero of Fulham supporters but tonight he earned the respect of the entire British public. The Serbian broke a record, almost three decades old, and became a man who scored the most goals in the second tier of English football.Goal machine, flowing football, champagne and London glamour – Fulham are back in the Premier LeagueIn Fulham’s victory over Luton (7-0), the big forward scored a brace, the second one coming in the second minute of added time and with it entered eternity, surpassing Guy Whittingham’s 1992/93 season record when he was wearing the Portsmouth shirt. Whittingham recorded 42 goals then and his tally seemed unreachable until May 2 – but then the 28-year-old Serbian kicked it into gear to score 43 goals by the penultimate match of the campaign.Record = Broken. 🔥Title = Done. ✅#FFC pic.twitter.com/lw1yDs2N0r— Fulham Football Club: Champions (@FulhamFC) May 2, 2022 And if we only rewind a couple of years – he was almost laughed at at St.James’ Park. Surely they must be scratching their heads as Rafael Benitez failed to utilize Mitrovic’s potential while he was in Newcastle, because in the 2016/17 season, also on the Championship grounds, Mitro scored only four goals!?Now there is a number ’43’ in the scoring column. In the same number of games. On average – a goal per match. The guy is most responsible for Fulham’s promotion to the Premier League after only one season. Marco Silva’s team scored more than a century of goals (a total of 106) and the dominance of the Cottagers can also be expressed in an incredible piece of statistics – Fulham’s goal difference is bigger than the total number of scored goals of as many as 21 teams in the league.Mitro himself scored more goals than Hull City (40), Peterborough (38) and Barnsley (33). His closest follower on the scorers’ list is Dominic Solanke from Bournemouth with ‘only’ 29 net-shaking shots.
