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Topics: Premier League, Manchester City, Erling Haaland, Football, Cristiano Ronaldo
Daniel Marland
Topics: Premier League, Manchester City, Erling Haaland, Football, Cristiano Ronaldo
A list of 'perfect' hat-tricks scored in the Premier League era has emerged, with the last two coming from Manchester City players.
Only 35 players have the honour of being able to say they've scored a hat-trick with their left foot, right foot and head.
Erling Haaland was the last man to do it when he netted three against Nottingham Forest in 2022.
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The Norway international joined City from Borussia Dortmund and set about tearing Premier League defences apart almost immediately.
It was Haaland's second hat-trick in the space of four days after already demolishing Crystal Palace the previous week.
He's not the only City player from that year to make the list. Raheem Sterling's final campaign at the Etihad Stadium saw him put Norwich City to the sword.
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No player has managed to grab a perfect hat-trick since 2022, proving just how hard it is.
You don't have to be the biggest name on the planet to register one too.
Cristiano Ronaldo failed to score a 'perfect' hat-trick during his two spells in England, while Mohamed Salah is yet to come close as well.
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Premier League cult hero Kevin Nolan have managed to, while names such as former Wigan Athletic man Jordi Gomez are unexpected.
Robbie Fowler, Yakubu and Sergio Aguero are the only two men who've managed to do it multiple times, with three to Fowler's name and two to Yakubu and Aguero's.
Check out the entire list below:
Mark Robins - Norwich City vs Oldham Athletic (1992)
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Efan Ekoku - Norwich City vs Everton (1993)
Robbie Fowler - Liverpool vs Southampton (1993), Arsenal (1995), Southampton (1999)
Matt Le Tissier - Southampton vs Norwich City (1994)
Chris Sutton - Blackburn Rovers vs Coventry City (1994)
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Tommy Johnson - Aston Villa vs Wimbledon (1995)
Andy Cole - Manchester United vs Ipswich Town (1995)
Gianluca Vialli - Chelsea vs Barnsley (1997)
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - Manchester United vs Everton (1999)
Emile Heskey - Liverpool vs Derby County (2000)
Les Ferdinand - Tottenham Hotspur vs Leicester City (2000)
Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink - Chelsea vs Tottenham Hotspur (2002)
Thierry Henry - Arsenal vs West Ham United (2003)
Peter Crouch - Liverpool vs Arsenal (2007)
Yakubu - Everton vs Fulham (2007), Swansea City (2011)
Mikael Forssell - Birmingham City vs Tottenham Hotspur (2008)
Gabriel Agbonlahor - Aston Villa vs Manchester City (2008)
Emmanuel Adebayor - Arsenal vs Blackburn Rovers (2008)
Salomon Kalou - Chelsea vs Stoke City (2010)
Didier Drogba - Chelsea vs Wigan Athletic (2010)
Louis Saha - Everton vs Blackpool (2011)
Edin Dzeko - Manchester City vs Tottenham Hotspur (2011)
Demba Ba - Newcastle United vs Stoke City (2011)
Pavel Pogrebnyak - Fulham vs Wolverhampton Wanderers (2012)
Jordi Gomez - Wigan Athletic vs Reading (2012)
Kevin Nolan - West Ham United vs Reading (2013)
Romelu Lukaku - West Bromwich Albion vs Manchester United (2013)
Jonathan Walters - Stoke City vs Queens Park Rangers (2015)
Steven Naismith - Everton vs Chelsea (2015)
Riyad Mahrez - Leicester City vs Swansea City (2015)
Sergio Aguero - Manchester City vs Newcastle United (2015), (2018)
Christian Pulisic - Chelsea vs Burnley (2019)
Ollie Watkins - Aston Villa vs Liverpool (2020)
Raheem Sterling - Manchester City vs Norwich City (2022)
Erling Haaland - Manchester City vs Nottingham Forest (2022)