After scoring a barely believable 19 goals in their last three matches, Fulham find themselves on course to break a second-tier scoring record that has stood for 65 years.
Leicester City hold the record for the most goals scored in a single season, when they netted 109 times as they romped to the Second Division title in 1956-57.
Only twice since then has the 100-goal barrier been broken in the second tier, once by Sheffield Wednesday (106) just two years later and then again by Kevin Keegan's Manchester City side in 2001-02. Unsurprisingly both of those teams were promoted to the top flight as champions too. Reading's record-shattering 106-point season saw them fall just short, on 99 goals.
Marco Silva's team have scored 70 goals in just 26 matches so far this season, beating Birmingham City and Bristol City by the same 6-2 margin at Craven Cottage in the space of four days off the back of a 7-0 win at Reading.
Marco Silva embraces teenager Fulham star Fabio Carvalho after the 6-2 win over Birmingham
Aleksander Mitrovic has scored 27 times in just 25 Championship matches so far this season
What makes those three results all the more remarkable is that they came off the back of a five-match winless run when just three goals were scored, as Fulham were pulled back into the chasing pack.
Fulham cannot yet afford to think of promotion as a guarantee, let alone the title, with Bournemouth and Blackburn just five points behind in second and third, but there is no doubt where they hold an advantage over their rivals. Blackburn are the Championship's next-highest scorers on 44, a huge 26 goals behind Fulham, who have a game in hand on Tony Mowbray's Rovers.
If Fulham continue to score at the rate they are going at, they will end up with 124 goals from 46 matches. While that will take some doing - and Peterborough's 1960-61 English record of 134 goals in the fourth tier certainly will - they are well on course to usurp Leicester's 1957 vintage and Keegan's City.
Silva has to take plenty of credit for Fulham's goal glut. Under Scott Parker, now in charge at Bournemouth, the Cottagers were the second-lowest scorers in the Premier League last season with just 27 goals as they were relegated. More pertinently, Silva's side have already scored more goals than Parker's did in their promotion season in 2019-20. Fulham were just the seventh-highest scorers in the Championship that year as they went up via the play-offs.
Parker has won plenty of admirers at Fulham and Bournemouth, but his style can perhaps be described as death by possession. He favours keeping the ball over everything else, even if the build-up is slow. Silva, on the other hand, likes his teams to go all-out attack, throwing bodies forward in desperation to score.
Marco Silva was sacked by Everton in November 2019 with them 18th in the Premier League
When it works it looks great and when it doesn't it looks terrible - as Everton fans will attest to. After an eighth-placed finish in his first season, Silva was sacked by Farhad Moshiri after a 5-2 defeat by Liverpool in December 2019 left Everton 18th - though the Portuguese boss will point out that they were only five points off the top half at that stage too.
Perhaps being in less of a pressure-cooker environment is helping Silva to flourish and rebuild his reputation, and there is a certain poetry to the fact that his side are flying as Everton lurch through yet another crisis as Moshiri searches for yet another manager.
Silva's best trick has been getting the best out Aleksandar Mitrovic, the Serbian battering-ram striker who seems to have been around forever but is still only 27. At his best, Mitrovic has shown he can be a decent Premier League striker. At his worst under Parker
