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Hat-tricks scored in the Premier League have been scored by Leeds United players - Cantona and Bamford!

Interesting article about hat-tricks in the Premier League on the BBC sports website.

From Cantona to Bamford - a history of Premier League hat-tricks

Last updated on 25 October 2020.
From the section Football

This season's hat-trick scorers - Ollie Watkins, Son Heung-min, Jamie Vardy, Patrick Bamford, Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Mohamed Salah
The hat-trick. It is football's most notable individual on-field achievement. A rarity honoured by the awarding of the match ball to those who manage it.

But such is the crazy, goal-packed nature of the 2020-21 season that even the remarkable feat of scoring three in a game is threatening to become routine.

Patrick Bamford's treble at Aston Villa on Friday was the sixth scored in the first 49 Premier League games of this campaign - the earliest such a tally has been reached in the competition's history.

In honour of this, BBC Sport takes a look back through the hat-tricks of the last 28-and-a-bit seasons of the English top flight.