ExtJS how to handle a component's element-related events in controller?

I have a Panel and I need to capture/handle the mouseover event for the element of this panel.

Currently I do this by extending the ExtJS Panel with the following listener (as suggested here):

...

listeners: {
    mouseover : {
        element : 'el',
        fn : function(){
            console.log('captured mouseover');
        }
    }
},

...

Can it be done via the ExtJS controller? So that I have the event handling in one controller?