He had already matched Degryse
We could almost forget it, but Dolberg has already almost dethroned monuments in Anderlecht. Last season, he scored in seven games in a row, which had not happened since the 1989-1990 season, works by Marc Degryse. Dolberg’s series ended against RWDM (2-1), when he had to leave the field due to injury after 34 minutes. The absolute record holder in this ranking is Paul Van Himst, with goals in 13 consecutive matches, in 1963-1964.
Mulder: 8 goals in 2 matches
Dolberg will have to eat OHL single-handedly to get the better of some of the biggest scorers in Anderlecht history. 7 goals in 3 championship matches is very strong. But what about Jan Mulder’s 8 goals in 2 D1 matches in 1966? His victims were Daring (5-0) and Sporting Charleroi (0-7), matches in which he scored four goals each time. That same year, Mulder had already scored 8 goals in 3 matches, including 5 against Sint-Truiden (6-0).
Beaten by Radzinski’s 8…
A few other scorers have done better than him over three league games, but they are rare. Tomasz Radzinski is the last. He had scored 8 in 3 matches at the end of the comeback of the 1998-1998 season under the Dockx-Vercauteren duo. The victims were not just any: he had scored three at Standard (0-6), three against Ghent (4-0) and three at Genk (2-5), the future champion who had trembled after the victory of the Mauves.
… et les 8 de Swat Van der Elst
The late Swat Van der Elst – brother of Bruges Leo – produced this same masterpiece in the championship. In 1974, he was the main scorer in the victories against Lierse (2-0, 1 goal), Olympic (0-5, 2 goals) and especially against AS Ostend (6-2, 5 goals). ). Other great scorers have not succeeded. Van Himst was stuck at 7 goals in 3 games in 1965 and 1967, as was Nilis in 1994. Jestrovic scored 6 goals in 3 games. More recently, Ivan Santini started the 2018-2019 season with 7 goals after 3 matches.
12 goals in 5 games for Krncevic
And what about the 10 goals scored in 5 matches by Dolberg, when we add the hat-trick in Tubize in the Cup? Transferred from Ajax, Dutch striker Ruud Geels also achieved it in his first four matches for Anderlecht in 1978. Kenneth Brylle did the same thing in 1981, notably thanks to his four goals in an 8-2 against Beerschot. But the big winner of this category is… the Australian Edi Krncevic. After scoring 10 goals in 5 matches in August 1988, the Kangaroo scored… 12 in 5 matches in December 1988 and January 1989. On Christmas Day, he scored 4 in the Belgian Cup at VW Hamme.
There was already a Bombardier in 1950
Our research is not exhaustive, since we do not have the details of the goals of “Cassis” Adams in 1928-1929, for example. Jef Mermans, nicknamed the Bomber, in any case found the net 11 times in 5 matches in 1949-1950. Given the terrible strike with which Dolberg deceived Roef on the free kick, he could apply for the nickname Mermans, 75 years later.
