Thursday, May 12, 2022 – 3:24 PM
From / Ahmed Zahran.
Abu Dhabi, May 12 / WAM / With three goals in the first 24 minutes of the match, the Belgian football star added a new line to his record of achievements with the Manchester City team in the English Premier League, and imposed himself strongly on the history of the tournament following scoring the third fastest hat-trick in the history of the tournament.
De Bruyne scored four goals (Super Hattrick) to lead his team to a great 5-1 victory over Wolverhampton on Wednesday evening, and his team approached a huge step from crowning the title, as Manchester City now needs only four points from its remaining two matches in the league to crown the precious title, regardless of The results of his only competitor, Liverpool.
De Bruyne’s first three goals came in the first 24 minutes of the match, becoming the third fastest hat-trick in the history of the Premier League, surpassed only by Senegalese Sadio Mane, who scored the fastest hat-trick in the history of the tournament during his first season with Liverpool when he scored a hat-trick in the first 16 minutes of the match. The match once morest Southampton on May 16, 2015.
The second fastest hat-trick in the history of the tournament went to Trinidadian Dwight Yorke, who scored a hat-trick for Manchester United in the first 22 minutes of the match, which led him to beat Arsenal 6-1 on February 25, 2001.
De Bruyne has never scored a hat-trick or super hat-trick with Manchester City, but he became the third player to score at least one hat-trick for Manchester City this season following his teammate Raheem Sterling’s hat-trick once morest Norwich City last February when Manchester City won 4-0 And the Brazilian Gabriel Jesus hat-trick once morest Watford last April, when the team won 5-1.
With these four goals (super hat-trick), De Bruyne topped the list of top scorers in the English Premier League this season, raising his score to 15 goals to advance to fourth place in the list of top scorers in the English Premier League.
De Bruyne also raised his score to 86 goals in 305 matches he played with Manchester City in various tournaments.
It is worth noting that Argentine Sergio Aguero, the former player of Manchester City, holds the record for the number of hat-tricks scored in the history of the English Premier League with 12 hat-tricks with the team, the last of which was in January 2020.
In addition to these numbers and distinguished statistics for the Belgian star, yesterday’s match witnessed a record for Manchester City, as the team maintained its unbeaten record in the matches played outside its stadium in the English Premier League for the 17th match in a row, knowing that yesterday’s victory is its fourteenth victory once morest 3 draws. Only in these games.
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