Aleksandar Mitrovic He once again demonstrated his scoring voracity with Serbia, which won 1-2 to Azerbaijan thanks to a double from the forward of Fulham, with which he reached five goals in the first three days of the qualifying phase for the Qatar World Cup 2022. With these two goals, Mitrovic (26) becomes Serbia's all-time top scorer with 40 goals.
While Mitrovic has not stopped celebrating goals in the last matches of his team, his teammate Luka jovic it has barely had a presence in the Balkan team. The Real Madrid player on loan at the Eintracht Frankfurt he has been a substitute (today he entered the 75th minute) in the three games and has barely accumulated 27 minutes out of 180 possible.
Between Mitrovic, Sergej Milinkovic-Savic, Dusan Vlahovic, Dusan Tadic and Filip Djuricic, the titles of the attack positions have been distributed. With two systems (4-4-2 and 4-3-3) in the matches that Serbia has played against Ireland, Portugal and Azerbaijan, Jovic he has never had a hole in Dragan Stojkovic's eleven.
And, while waiting for an opportunity on the bench, Mitrovic has been exhibited in each of the commitments of the Balkan team until establishing itself, for the time being and until the rest of the matches, as the top scorer in the qualifying phase of the European zone.
The forward of the Fulham opened the scoring at the quarter hour of the game, taking advantage of an assist of Dusan
Tadic, but Serbia did not know how to sentence and, in 59 ', scored Makmudov penalty the tie. A mirage for the locals, because in the 81st minute Mitrovic appeared to seal the final 1-2 that places Serbia as the group leader, waiting for what he does. Portugal in Luxembourg.