Manchester City’s Erling Haaland equals Harry Kane record with West Ham hat-trick

Manchester City striker Erling Haaland matched a record set by Harry Kane after he scored a hat-trick in Saturday’s 3-1 win over West Ham United.
Haaland slotted the ball into the bottom corner to open the scoring in the 10th minute, before he saw his early opener cancelled out by a Ruben Dias own goal.

That unfortunate moment was quickly forgotten as Haaland produced an emphatic finish to give Man City a narrow half-time lead.

Haaland went on to grab a third in the 83rd minute, timing his run to perfection to beat the offside track and fire past substitute goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski.

The third goal was extra special because it sealed back-to-back hat-tricks following his three-goal haul against newly-promoted Ipswich Town last weekend.

Haaland matches Kane feat
As a result of his match-winning display against West Ham, Haaland joined Kane in an exclusive club as the only two players to have scored consecutive Premier League hat-tricks on two occasions.

Haaland previously scored back-to-back trebles in August 2022, scoring hat-tricks in a 4-2 win over Crystal Palace and a 6-0 victory against Nottingham Forest.

As for Kane, he netted two hat-tricks in four days during Tottenham’s 2016-17 season, racking up seven goals across two games against Leicester City and Hull.

The England international then repeated the feat in the 2017-18 campaign, registering three-goal hauls against Burnley and Southampton.