Amad Diallo matches Cristiano Ronaldo's achievement with Manchester United's hat-trick against Southampton

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 didn't even score his first late goal Dramatic competition With Southampton taking the lead in the 82nd minute. Imad's initial effort was blocked by Kyle Walker-Peters, but the ball bounced nicely to the Ivorian who calmly slotted past Aaron Ramsdale at the second attempt.

Imad reunited with Christian Eriksen for the shoot united In front for the first time that night in the 90th minute, stretching out to slot the ball past the former Arsenal goalkeeper. As Old Trafford bounced in unison, a collective feeling of shock and awe filtered through the spectators ready to celebrate victory after what had been a hard-fought match. Quite a lukewarm performancethe club's familiar savior completed his hat-trick in stoppage time.

Not only was it the first hat-trick of Amad's career – he doubled his Premier League goal tally for the season within eight minutes of the second half – but it was the first Premier League hat-trick United have been able to muster since. Ronaldo Delivered the goods against Norwich City in April 2022.

There have been 34 Premier League A hat-trick, scored by 22 unique players for 14 different clubs between United's last two appearances. Erling Haaland alone collected eight balls for the match, including one in the Manchester derby.

This is not a recent phenomenon.

Like most statistics that are vaguely positive, Manchester United's number of hat-tricks has declined since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement in 2013. The Red Devils won that year's title with a hat-trick from Robin van Persie's goals against Aston Villa, but they did not. We wouldn't score another Premier League hat-trick until June 2020, when Anthony Martial scored a rare goal of quality form during the visit of Sheffield United.

Bruno Fernandes He completes the quartet of players who have scored a hat-trick after Ferguson in the Premier League for United. Including Romelu Lukaku's hat-trick in Ferguson's farewell match, six different players have scored hat-tricks against the club in the same time frame.

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