Euro 2024 qualifying: Mitrovic scored 2 hat-tricks in… 67 minutes

From the Saudi Pro League to the Euro 2024 qualifiers, Aleksandar Mitrovic has proven to be a great striker. Within 9 days, he scored 2 hat-tricks for Al Hilal Club and the Serbian team.

It is worth mentioning that the former Fulham striker scored these 6 goals within 67 minutes. Specifically, he scored 3 goals from the 20th to 65th minute in the match against Al Ittihad and another 3 goals from the 21st to 43rd minute against Lithuania.

If the first hat-trick contributed to helping Al Hilal come back to win 4-3 in the super classic match of Saudi Arabia's football, the latest achievement brought a 3-1 victory for Serbia.

This result brought Serbia to second place in Group G of the Euro 2024 qualifying round, with the same 10 points as Hungary but with a poor score difference and having played one more match. They have a chance to participate in the European Championship after being eliminated twice in 2016 and 2020 with the new format.

With his hat-trick last night, Mitrovic now has more international goals (55) than both Wayne Rooney (53) and Olivier Giroud (54), an achievement achieved after 83 matches.

In the last 11 matches in all competitions for Serbia, Mitrovic scored 11 goals, including 2 hat-tricks (against Sweden and Lithuania). Just a few days ago, he received the award for best striker of the UEFA Nations League 2022/23 season.

Even though he just joined Al Hilal, Mitrovic was directly involved in 5 goals after 3 matches, including scoring 4 goals and assisting 1, helping this team take the top spot in the Saudi Pro League table.