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On Thursday night, Amad Diallo became the first Manchester United player to score a hat-trick in the Premier League since Cristiano Ronaldo almost three years ago.
United’s modern-day talisman could not find the net for the first time in his late flurry A dramatic contest 82nd minute ticked off with Southampton. Amad’s early effort was blocked by the fading Kyle Walker-Peters, but the ball bounced mercifully for the Ivorian who coolly slotted past Aaron Ramsdale for the second attempt.
Amad shot alongside Christian Eriksen combined Up front for the first time on the night in the 90th minute, the former Arsenal goalkeeper stretched out to hook a volley. As Old Trafford erupted in unison, the crowd’s collective feelings of shock and awe were ready to celebrate the victory. A mostly listless operationThe club’s familiar savior completed his treble in stoppage time.
Not only was it the first hat-trick of Amad’s senior career – doubling his Premier League goal tally for the season in the space of eight seconds-and-a-half minutes – but it was the first top-flight treble United had managed to muster since. Ronaldo Delivered the goods against Norwich City in April 2022.
3 – Amad Diallo is only the third player in Premier League history to score three times in the final 10 minutes of a game, after Ole Gunnar Solskjaer v Nottingham Forest in February 1999 and Wayne Rooney v Hull City in January 2010, all three from Manchester. Combined… pic.twitter.com/ttCGlYKSWb
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) January 16, 2025
There were 34 Premier League Hat-tricks by 22 unique players for 14 different clubs between United’s last two entries. Erling Halland alone collected eight match balls – including one in the Manchester derby.
This is not a modern phenomenon.
Like most statistics that are even vaguely positive, Manchester United’s hat-trick tally has fallen since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013. The Red Devils won the title that year with Robin van Persie scoring all three goals against Aston Villa, but did not win it. Register another top-flight trouble until June 2020, when Anthony Martial hit a rare pocket of good form during the visit of Sheffield United.
Bruno Fernandes Ferguson completes a quartet of players to score subsequent Premier League hat-tricks for United. Six different players have scored a hat-trick against the club in the same timeframe, including Romelu Lukaku’s three goals in Ferguson’s bonkers farewell match.
Every Man Utd Premier League hat-trick since Sir Alex Ferguson
|
Player |
opposite (date) |
|---|---|
|
Anthony Marshall |
Sheffield United (24 June 2020) |
|
Bruno Fernandes |
Leeds United (14 August 2021) |
|
Cristiano Ronaldo |
Tottenham (12 March 2022) |
|
Cristiano Ronaldo |
Norwich City (16 April 2022) |
|
Amad Diallo |
Southampton (16 January 2025) |
