Lionel Messi loses the reign among players with the most triplets

Only three South Americans appear among the scorers with the most triplets in the main leagues in the world, including international and national team tournaments. Lionel Messi You need no introduction to this top. The Argentine, although he is the lone leader of the South American continent in this ranking, is second in the general table.

The eight-time Ballon d’Or winner has secured his second place, since Robbert Lewandowski, third, is still a long way from equaling his record and is unlikely to achieve it. Erling Haaland and Kylian Mbappé come from behind with momentum, but the balance is still more than unequal.

The king of triplets is called Cristiano Ronaldo. The Portuguese, currently in Al-Nassr, is the leader of the list with 60 hat tricks in his career. His difference against Messi is only three hat-tricks and his internship in Saudi Arabia will not serve to increase his power, since the football of that country does not appear among the 15 most important leagues in the world. With Portugal, yes, the forward made the difference and his history with triplets is more than notable.

By competition

In the Champions League, the most important club tournament, Messi has recorded six hat-tricks, one of them against Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. The interesting thing is that The Argentine has twice scored more than three goals in European competition, first against Arsenal in 2010 and then against Bayer Leverkusen in 2012. In his first poker appearance, the Barcelona idol and today at Inter Miami celebrated four times, while in the second he did it five times. At club level, he has only managed to score half a dozen once.

For LaLiga, the antecedent of Messi with the triplets he is massive and at one time, his level seemed to be too great for the Spanish championship, the same with Cristiano Ronaldo. The Argentine celebrated in triplicate against teams like Real Madrid, Sevilla, Atlético de Madrid and Valencia, the biggest in the country. The first time he scored a hat trick was against Madrid in the 2006/07 campaign. His time at PSG was so irregular that he was never able to score in triples and only scored a double five times, three of them in the Champions League.

The general dominance of the ranking of the players with the most hat tricks is the property of the Europeans. In the most refined top, Lewandowski is third with 31 hat-tricks, almost half of Cristiano Ronaldo, while Harry Kane is in fifth position with 21 hat-tricks. Luis Suárez is the second South American most important of the group. The Uruguayan leaves a balance of 29 hat-tricks in his elite career, 12 of them with Barcelona, ​​either having scored three Luis Suárez, with 29s or more. With Ajax he scored six goals in a single official match and played poker three other times.

New golden couple

The new golden couple appears strongly on the list and, being the youngest of the group, they are already among the 10 players with the most triplets in history in elite football. Haaland, At just 23 years old, he is already sixth with a total of 20 triplets, while Mbappé, at 25 years old, is seventh with two less than the Norwegian. Haaland’s thing is spectacular, since since the dreaded 2022/23 he has scored eight hat-tricks with Manchester City and on two of those occasions he finished his presentation with five goals. The most impressive thing is that against Leipzig and Luton Town, his victims, Haaland was on the field for less than 90 minutes.

The arrival of Haaland to England is just an appetizer of what its overall balance could be in a few years. And with Borussia Dortmund, the club that welcomed him to the elite, the U-23 attacker only scored four hat-tricks, half of those he already completes with the Premier League team.

Sergio Agüero, tenth on the list and historic scorer for Manchester City, left the city team with 16 triplets in his overall record, today double what Erling Haaland has with the club.