By Edgardo Avelar
Sep 21, 2024, 8:15 PM EDT
Raul Jimenez with his goal This Saturday in Fulham’s 3-1 victory over Newcastle, he moved within four goals of the record for scoring by a Mexican striker in the Premier League held by Javier “Chicharito” Hernandez.
The so-called “Wolf of Tepeji” reached 49 goals in the prestigious English competition and is four away from the 53 that Javier “Chicharito” Hernández managed to accumulate during his time in this competition in the six years he played for Manchester United and West Ham United.
Jiménez is showing that he has returned to his former glory and with two goals scored in a row, the first in the last match against West Ham United and now against New Castle, he is on the way to recovering that goal-scoring level that earned him so much prestige in his first four years with Wolverhampton.
The former América striker is stalking his compatriot’s record He emerged from the Chivas youth academy after just six years in the Premier League and, with this goal-scoring pace, everything seems to indicate that he will match and surpass it very soon.
The forward of the Mexican national team in the 2014, 2018 and 2022 World Cups He joined Wolves in 2018 and made his debut against Everton, and thus began to score goals, as demonstrated by the 12 he scored in the 2018 and 2019 seasons.
The following tournament he had his best campaign with 17 goals.but then when he suffered his head injury in 2020 in a clash with the Brazilian André Luiz, his performance declined, only managing to score 10 goals before leaving the team that took him to the English competition.
Another positive thing about Jimenez’s current performance, is that this Saturday’s annotation was of a high manufacture When he received a cross from the right in the fifth minute of action, he brought the ball down with his chest inside the area and with almost no angle he turned around to shoot and nestle the ball into the base of the left post of Newcastle’s goal to open the way to a 3-1 victory.
The win takes Fulham to eight points in eighth place in the table, four behind leaders Liverpool on 12 points. in five games played by the team where Mexican Raúl Jiménez plays.
In a Fulham uniform, Jiménez has scored nine league goalsof which seven were in the last tournament and in the current tournament he has already scored two goals, which means he continues on his way to breaking the record of “Chicharito” who achieved them during his time at Manchester United and West Hernán United.
This news is not only to highlight the new growth of Raúl Jiménezbut for the Mexican national team, it is something favorable, since it will generate greater competition with Santiago Jiménez of Feyenoord in the Netherlands, with Henry Martín of América, with Guillermo Martínez of Pumas and possibly with the naturalized Mexican Germán Berterame of Rayados del Monterey.
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