On Saturday against Brentford, Erling Haaland will attempt to do something nobody has managed since 1946.
The Manchester City striker has scored hat-tricks in his previous two Premier League games and if he can get another at the Etihad Stadium against Thomas Frank’s side this weekend, he will join a very exclusive list of players.
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One player getting three goals in three consecutive English top-flight matches has only happened four times — and three of them were before 1930.
Here, The Athletic tells the stories of those four occasions, and the men the 24-year-old Norway international is hoping to emulate.
Opponents: Liverpool, Leicester City, West Ham United
Osborne, Tottenham’s centre-forward, played 26 times for
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