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    Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Aleksandar Mitrovic's two goals in Fulham's 4-1 victory over QPR this afternoon takes his tally in the Championship so far this season to 12. That means the Serbian international has scored the same number of goals as Cardiff City's entire squad and three more than tomorrow's opponents Swansea.

    Mitrovic's scoring record for Fulham in the Championship is just astonishing. It reads as follows:

    2017/18 - 17 apps, 12 goals

    2019/20 - 40 apps, 26 goals

    2020/21 - 12 apps, 12 goals

    Totals - 69 apps, 50 goals

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    yeah he's a beast, probably shouldn't be playing in this league with his talents

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by Splott-light... View Post
    yeah he's a beast, probably shouldn't be playing in this league with his talents
    Can't seem to do it in the Premier League, though. Just 14 goals in two seasons at that level with Fulham, which is a poor return by his standards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
    Can't seem to do it in the Premier League, though. Just 14 goals in two seasons at that level with Fulham, which is a poor return by his standards.
    jeez, we've seen many players (and managers) like that over the years, maybe they should look at forming a league in between the Prem and Championship..

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Did you here the short debate of 5 Live about him about midday today? The question was asked why doesn’t he match his Championship form in the Premier League. One suggestion was that he doesn’t work hard enough, tracking back etc, another that Fulham aren’t good enough up there so play a more reserved style, even though it doesn’t work for them. One said it was his work off the ball that hadn't attracted interest from more established Premier League clubs. The Championship forward who they really bigged up was Ben Brereton of Blackburn, born in Stoke but plays for Chile. Scored in a 3-0 win against Venezuela in a World Cup qualifier, his third in 8 appearances. Also got a hat trick against us. They even went as far as he’s the type of forward that Newcastle should be going for in January.

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by Splott-light... View Post
    jeez, we've seen many players (and managers) like that over the years, maybe they should look at forming a league in between the Prem and Championship..

    There is one isn’t there, Norwich, West Brom & Fulham are founder members

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
    The Championship forward who they really bigged up was Ben Brereton of Blackburn, born in Stoke but plays for Chile. Scored in a 3-0 win against Venezuela in a World Cup qualifier, his third in 8 appearances. Also got a hat trick against us. They even went as far as he’s the type of forward that Newcastle should be going for in January.
    I didn't hear the radio debate, but for whatever reason Mitrovic is almost unplayable at this level and mediocre at best in the Premier League. He's 27 now, so I guess there's still time for him to make a proper mark in the top flight.

    Brereton-Diaz is just 22. He has 10 goals in 12 Championship appearances for Blackburn this season and 2 goals in 4 appearances for Chile. He plays alongside Gary Medel and Alexis Sanchez for them and started all three of their World Cup qualifiers in the last week or so.

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
    I didn't hear the radio debate, but for whatever reason Mitrovic is almost unplayable at this level and mediocre at best in the Premier League. He's 27 now, so I guess there's still time for him to make a proper mark in the top flight.

    Brereton-Diaz is just 22. He has 10 goals in 12 Championship appearances for Blackburn this season and 2 goals in 4 appearances for Chile. He plays alongside Gary Medel and Alexis Sanchez for them and started all three of their World Cup qualifiers in the last week or so.
    3 goals in 8 appearances in total for Chile Dave. Just reading that Chilean fans playing football manager picked up on the fact that his mother was from Chile. Could turn out to be an amazing football tale, if it isn’t already.

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    You do wonder how he'd perform in the German top league as its good but not as competitive club by club as Premier??

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
    You do wonder how he'd perform in the German top league as its good but not as competitive club by club as Premier??
    He’s most probably on a more lucrative contract with Fulham than he’d get with a Bundesliga club given their Premier League (mis)adventures. He’s nowhere near Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund standard to earn the big Euros.

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
    3 goals in 8 appearances in total for Chile Dave.
    I was quoting his games this season (he played a few games for Chile at the end of last season). By comparison, Mitrovic has 2 goals in 4 appearances for Serbia this season. Surprisingly, he failed to find the back of the net against Luxembourg last week. Can City's defence match Luxembourg's on Wednesday evening, I wonder? I have doubts....


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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
    You do wonder how he'd perform in the German top league as its good but not as competitive club by club as Premier??
    He'd do very well I'm sure. His Serbian teammate Marko Grujic was more comfortable in the Bundesliga than he looked to be in the Championship.

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
    I was quoting his games this season (he played a few games for Chile at the end of last season). By comparison, Mitrovic has 2 goals in 4 appearances for Serbia this season. Surprisingly, he failed to find the back of the net against Luxembourg last week. Can City's defence match Luxembourg's on Wednesday evening, I wonder? I have doubts....

    Luxembourg!!!! North Norfolk Digital’s Alan Partridge would have a field day against us

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Mitrovic is a flat track bully who was missing in action for nearly all of last season and the same will apply even if he scores a hat trick against us on Wednesday.

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    There was a decent feature on Brereton Diaz a few weeks ago on Football Focus. Must have been around the last international break.
    Well worth a watch if it's still on Iplayer

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
    He'd do very well I'm sure. His Serbian teammate Marko Grujic was more comfortable in the Bundesliga than he looked to be in the Championship.
    Trouble being as Splott Parker points out wages at Fulham are more attractive than the sides he may get into such as Wolfsburg, Koln, RB Leipzig who sit just below top 5 .

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
    Mitrovic is a flat track bully…...
    For the uninitiated, this means Mitrovic scores lots of goals in the second tier of English football, but not so many in the top flight.

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
    For the uninitiated, this means Mitrovic scores lots of goals in the second tier of English football, but not so many in the top flight.
    Correct, I first heard it applied to the Zimbabwean born batsman Graham Hick who spent six years playing county cricket for Worcestershire as a qualification period to enable him to play test cricket for England through residency. During that time Hick would often cash in spectacularly when batting against limited county attacks on good wickets. Such was Hick’s success rate, that he was hailed as one of, if not the, best batsmen in the world, something which, of course, only served to up the expectation, and pressure, on him when he made his England debut in 1991.

    However, although test cricket tended to be played on better batting wickets than he was used to, the step up in class in terms of the bowling he faced found him out as they exploited holes in his technique and a degree of mental frailty. Hick still had a long test career and there was the occasional fine innings as well, but, as a basic guide, a batting average of 40 over a career lasting years is generally regarded as a sign of good international batsman or batter as I should say these days - Hick played eighty five tests in a nine year career and averaged 31, compared to an average in county cricket of 52.

    I’d say Mitrovic is probably better equipped to succeed at the top level than Hick was, but something holds him back - last season, it seemed to me to be a combination of a lack of peak fitness ( he looked overweight to me), a lack of movement and, possibly, a lack of belief in himself, but he’s contributed nowhere near enough in his two seasons playing in the Premier League with Fulham, while I would say he was a bit more effective, but hardly a world beater, when he was there with Newcastle.

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    Re: Aleksandar Mitrovic

    Quote Originally Posted by splott parker View Post
    There is one isn’t there, Norwich, West Brom & Fulham are founder members
    Ah the yo yo league

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