\nMichael Owen<\/td>\n | Liverpool & Newcastle United<\/td>\n | 8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n With Harry Kane still only in his 20’s, there is every chance that the Englishman could well eventually end up breaking the record for Premier League hat-tricks, with years left to play at the highest level, if he decides to stay in England.<\/p>\n It is also perhaps surprising not to see Wayne Rooney in the top five at least considering that he is Manchester United\u2019s all time record scorer and made a name for himself out of being consistent.<\/p>\n For a considerable part of his career at Old Trafford though, he often had to make do with playing second fiddle to the likes of Ronaldo, Dmitar Berbatov, Carlos Tevez and Robin van Persie, while when he first arrived, he was competing with lethal hitman Ruud van Nistlerooy, the ageing Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, Alan Smith and Louis Saha for a starting place.<\/p>\n Notable Mentions<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n Interestingly, no defender has actually ever scored a hat-trick in the Premier League, however, there is some contention that could be attributed to this. In 2003, David Moyes\u2019 Everton side beat Leeds United 4-0 with Steve Watson scoring three. Watson had been converted from a full back to a defensive midfielder by Moyes that season, though even so, this is still quite a feat.<\/p>\n It is worth noting that Manchester United\u2019s left back Denis Irwin scored a hat-trick in a Champions League game. Meanwhile, if you were to look beyond the Premier League to the lower echelons of English football, you would find that the then Bristol City beanpole, Aden Flint hit a hat-trick from open play when his side beat Walsall 8-2 on 3 May, 2015 when they won League One at a canter.<\/p>\n The imposing centre back\u2019s goals consisted of a volley, a back-heel rabona finish and a close range tap in. Manager of the South West club, Steve Cotterill said after the match: \u201cI said to the strikers at the end of the game that they should be ashamed of themselves when someone like Aden has gone out there and scored three!\u201d<\/p>\n In perhaps one of the most bizarre, yet inspired substitutions in English football over the last few decades, left back Steve Staunton came on for the second half of a game for Liverpool, replacing prolific striker Ian Rush and ended up completing a hat-trick against Wigan Athletic in a League Cup clash.\u00a0 At the 2002 World Cup, ex-Aston Villa centre back Alpay Ozalan scored three goals for his native Turkey against Macedonia.<\/p>\n Arguably the most bizarre hat-trick came courtesy of Paraguayan goalkeeper Jose Luis Chilavert when he donned the gloves for Argentine side Velez Sarsfield on 28 November 1999 in a local derby Ferro Carril Oeste in a 6-1 landslide victory. Chilavert carved a career reputation out of scoring from penalties and free-kicks with his wand of a left foot, with the ball often nestling in the corner of a net. The odds of a goalkeeper scoring a hat-trick in a top flight game in a competitive league such as the Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A or La Liga would be astronomical and not even worth entertaining.<\/p>\n Out of the games that were analysed based on these statistics, the chances of a hat-trick happening during a game in La Liga works out at 3.81 percent.<\/p>\n Better Odds for Hat-tricks?<\/h2>\nIt is often the case that the market for hat-tricks in football games is priced considerably higher than the markets for a single goal and as a result, follows the same formula; usually the players who occupy the more attacking positions and then who are in the best form have shorter prices.<\/p>\n The market for hat-tricks is very rarely touched, especially in the Premier League, unless there is a player in a scoring streak who could well be up against an opponent who would find it hard to contain him.<\/p>\n Any match that has the likes of Ronaldo or Messi in, is always worth looking at the odds of a hat-trick for either of those players, however, the odds are likely to be a lot shorter. Some bookmakers sometimes have offers for a player to score a hat-trick in a game or they either have an incentive such as a boosted price for there to be a hat-trick scored over a particular round of fixtures.<\/p>\n Final thoughts<\/h2>\nPlayers such as Ronaldo and Messi often come around once every 30 or 40 years. The last time there was two players of equal talent and ability was when both Pele and Diego Maradona graced the footballing landscape. It is these kinds of players who make scoring look easy and as a result, it doesn’t matter who they are playing against.<\/p>\n The statistics speak for themselves; both Ronaldo and Messi have proven themselves to be almost superhuman and the fact that the former has also broken a record in achieving these numbers indicate that it could well be another 30 years before we witness such a feat again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In football one of the rarer achievements in a match is for a player to score a hat-trick and indeed,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":206,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"page_type":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-01 00:53:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"page_type"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5068\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bettingwebsites.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/page_type?post=5068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |