Fulham all set to break records: your favourite team in the Championship
Fulham’s performance in the Championship this season has been almost unparalleled. The team is set to break several records on its way back to the English elite and it is understandable if they have become your favourite team in the Championship, whether it is for watching or betting.
Return to the Premier League
The past decade has not been the most rememberable era of Fulham as the team went through several promotions and relegations from Premier League to Championship and vice versa. Since the 2018-19 season, the team got relegated twice and is now set to return to the elite again after this record-breaking season.
Fulham’s exceptional attacking football turned them into a go-to team for pundits and it is understandable if they have become your favourite team for betting in the Championship.
Here is a simple comparison that will make it all clear if for some reason you haven’t noticed Fulham’s matches this season. The second-highest scoring team in the Championship are Bournemouth, who are second in the league with 49 goals in 30 games.
Now, here comes Fulham. In 31 fixtures, the Cottagers scored 79 goals. With 15 games left in the season, they have all the chances to beat Manchester City’s 2001/02 Championship run with 108 goals – the highest-ever in the second tier of English football.
The team already broke one ancient record – Aleksandar Mitrovic, Fulham’s forward, recently became the highest-scoring player in a single season in the Championship with his 31 goals. He scored them in just 29 matches.
The team has been at the top for most of the season and currently has a six-point lead over Bournemouth. But what will happen when they return to the Premier League?
What can we expect from Fulham in the Premier League?
We often see teams dominate in the Championship. While few teams have seasons like Fulham’s, some sides in recent years definitely looked promising and then flopped in the Premier League.
Before anything else, we think that Fulham’s upcoming season in the PL depends on whether Aleksandar Mitrovic will remain in the team. We often see teams sell their top players after a solid season, and Mitrovic’s value will only continue to grow until the end of this campaign.
The Serbian forward had one unsuccessful adventure in the Premier League with Newcastle United between 2015-2018. Back then, he scored 14 goals in 65 games and many condemned him as a player that is not fit for the elite.
He is quite young, however, and is probably yet to reach his absolute peak. He has already become a Fulham legend and there are good chances that he will choose to remain in the team that gave him the opportunity to grow as a player.
After such an unbelievable season, we think that Fulham will have some success in the Premier League and for the first time in years, they will not get relegated after a single season. It is a fact that the elite has turned into a far more levelled league and besides two or three teams that are obviously world-class, most of the other teams are somewhere near Fulham’s current level.
