Looking at the five major leagues in Europe, I occasionally turn my attention to the secondary leagues, such as the fiercely competitive Championship. In the Championship, there is also no shortage of familiar faces.
The current team leading the Championship is Fulham, who scored 2-0 away to Queens Park Rangers in a recently concluded 40th round of the Championship, with Serbian striker Mitrovic scoring the two goals.
In the first half of the game, Fulham played a smooth combination on the right side of the front, receiving a teammate's under-the-bottom cross, and Mitrovic wrapped up in front of the goal.
In the second half, Queen's Park Rangers players handballed inside the penalty area and Mitrovic scored an easy penalty.
After winning the game, Fulham, who have 80 points from 24 wins, 8 draws and 6 defeats, are eight points ahead of second-place Bournemouth in the Championship table and 14 points ahead of third-place Huddersfield. After all 46 rounds, the top two teams in the table will be promoted directly to the Premier League, and Fulham, which has a huge lead, is getting closer to promotion.
After 38 games, Fulham scored 92 goals and conceded 32 goals, making it the team with the most goals and the fewest goals conceded in the Championship this season, and performed well on both ends of the board. Among them, as the top scorer in Fulham's squad, Mitrovic has scored 37 goals in 36 crazy premier league games this season, far ahead of the top scorer list. Second in the Championship top scorers is Bournemouth's Sorank, the former Liverpool striker who has scored 24 goals in the Championship so far this season.
Previously, the Championship record of 31 goals in a single season has now been set by Mitrovic to 37. With Fulham still having eight rounds of the Championship this season, Mishen still has plenty of time to keep breaking records.
Mitrovic, who has played for Newcastle and Fulham, has scored 24 goals in 104 Premier League games so far. In addition, he has spent 4 seasons in the Championship, of which in the 2019-20 season, Mishen won the Championship Golden Boot with 26 goals, helping Fulham return to the Premier League; this season, he is in a better form, basically locked in the Championship Golden Boot, it is likely to help Fulham rise to the Premier League again.
In the Serbian national team, Mitrovic is also in good shape.
Mitrovic, who has made 71 appearances in the national team, has scored 44 goals, and at the age of 27, he is already the first scorer in the history of the Serbian national team. Among them, in the 2022 World Cup European Qualifiers, Mishen scored 8 goals in 8 appearances, including in the final round of qualifiers, Serbia defeated Portugal 2-1 away, and Mitrovic staged a deadlock to help Serbia lock in the group top spot, thus directly getting the World Cup ticket.
At that time, the game was already in the 90th minute, the score was still 1-1, and if it ended with this score, Portugal would be the top spot in the group and directly qualify. At this time, receiving a pass from Tadić on the right, Mitrovic's header, after the goal, he excitedly took off his shirt and ran wildly.
After a 2-1 win over Portugal, Stojkovic's Serbia team jumped from second in the group to top of the group and directly got the World Cup ticket.
Stojkovic, who once coached Guangzhou R&F, now leads the Serbian squad with many familiar faces: Mitrovic, Vlahović, Tadić, Milinkovic, Kostic.
At the 2022 Qatar World Cup, Serbia is in Group G with Brazil, Switzerland and Cameroon. Can this Serbia go far in the World Cup?