Mitrovic was magnificent for the west Londoners within the Championship final time period, blitzing a document 43 objectives in 44 appearances as Silva’s facet secured an instantaneous return to the highest battle.
The Serbian picked up the place he left off, opening the scoring with a trademark back-post header, after which put the house facet again in entrance by profitable and changing a penalty after substitute Darwin Nunez had equalised for the Reds.
Mohamed Salah finally earned the guests a share of the factors however Silva was left delighted by his ahead’s show.
“Within the field, he’ll rating in case you present him good probabilities however I repeat one thing I stated final season possibly 20 occasions: Mitro is not only a goalscorer for us,” he stated.
“He did an unbelievable job for us with out the ball. The way in which he pressed, the best way he helped the midfielders, the best way he helped typically the backline as nicely.
“It’s implausible to see that even with the work he did, within the seventieth minute he can take the ball and run 30 or 40 metres and win a penalty like he gained. He was implausible. He deserved the 2 objectives for the great efficiency and I’m actually happy for him.”
The season started with query marks over Mitrovic’s capacity to copy his Championship kind within the high flight, having scored simply three objectives through the Cottagers’ final Premier League marketing campaign two seasons in the past.
An outstanding efficiency from Fulham’s talisman.
/ Motion Photographs by way of ReutersThat 12 months, he was finally dropped from the facet amid a falling out with then supervisor Scott Parker however Silva says he has by no means doubted the 27-year-old’s capacity.
“For me it’s not essential what folks say about him,” he added. “Mitro is the highest scorer of his nationwide group and nationwide groups don’t play simply in opposition to Championship golf equipment. They play in opposition to one of the best nationwide groups on the planet. He can be on the World Cup, he was decisive within the qualification playoff in opposition to Portugal. So for me, a few of the questions don’t make sense.
“Mitro has his personal profile. It’s as much as us to ship and get one of the best from him. After all, in some video games he’ll rating like this afternoon and in others he won’t be then he has to do the opposite a part of the sport as nicely.”
