Amad Diallo joins Cristiano Ronaldo with Man Utd’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 talisman did not score first in his late surge until drama competition with Southampton, she scored in the 82nd minute. Amad’s initial effort was blocked by the quickly fading Kyle Walker-Peters but the ball deflected kindly for the Ivorian who coolly slotted past Aaron Ramsdale for the second attempt.

Amad combined with Christian Eriksen to shoot United in the 90th minute for the first time in the attack, stretching and hitting a volley over the former Arsenal goalkeeper. As Old Trafford bounced in unison, a collective sense of shock and awe permeated the crowd ready to celebrate victory after what had been mostly listless performancethe famous savior of the club completed the treble in stoppage time.

Not only was it the first hat-trick of Amad’s senior career – he doubled his Premier League goals tally for the season in the space of eight second-half minutes – but it was also the first treble United had managed since Ronaldo delivered the goods against Norwich City in April 2022.

There were 34 of them Premier League hat-tricks, scored by 22 unique players for 14 different clubs between United’s last two entries. Erling Haaland alone collected eight goals for the match – including one in the Manchester derby.

This is not a modern phenomenon.

Much like most statistics that are even vaguely positive, Manchester United’s hat-trick tally has plummeted since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013. The Red Devils won the title that year with Robin van Persie’s hat-trick against Aston Villa, but they haven’t registered yet one top treble until June 2020, when Anthony Martial achieved a rare pocket of good form away to Sheffield United.

Bruno Fernandes completes a quartet of players to have scored a hat-trick for United in the Premier League since Ferguson. Including Romelu Lukaku’s three goals in Ferguson’s crazy farewell game, six different players have scored hat-tricks against the club in the same time frame.

Every Man Utd Premier League hat-trick since Sir Alex Ferguson

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