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Football

Five Premier League hat-trick scorers suffered defeat in unusual matches

Source: Punch Nigeria · 21 Sep 2026, 20:00 UTC
Five Premier League hat-trick scorers suffered defeat in unusual matches
Image: Punch Nigeria · original report

Punch Nigeria reports on five players in Premier League history who scored hat-tricks despite ending the matches on the losing side. The supplied material names Brian Brobbey but does not identify the other players, their opponents or the scores.

Five players in Premier League history have scored hat-tricks in matches their teams nevertheless lost, according to a list published by Punch Nigeria. The report describes the feat as an unusual occurrence in the competition. A hat-trick normally represents a major individual contribution, but the listed matches ended in defeat for the players’ teams.

The supplied material identifies Brian Brobbey as one of the players included. It does not provide the names of the remaining four players, the matches in which the goals were scored or the final scores. It also gives no details about when Brobbey’s match took place, which club he represented or the opponent involved.

Punch Nigeria’s headline says the article contains a full list of five players, but those details are not included in the available source material.

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