📊 Irfan Kahveci's long-range hat-trick makes good and bad CL history

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Padraig Whelan·2 December 2020

📊 Irfan Kahveci's long-range hat-trick makes good and bad CL history

You have to feel for Istanbul Basaksehir’s Irfan Kahveci.

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02/12/2020Full time

The 25-year-old scored a stunning hat-trick for his side tonight, netting all of his goals with superb efforts from outside the box.

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All three came via his deadly left foot, including a superb free-kick for his third, and saw him equal the efforts of a certain Englishman.

3 - Irfan Can Kahveci is the first player to score a hat-trick of goals from outside the box in a Champions League game since September 2004, when Wayne Rooney netted three against Fenerbahçe. Speculative.
– Wednesday, 2 December 2020

But the night ended in disappointment for Kahveci as his side’s defensive collapse saw Leipzig secure a last minute winner from Alexander Sørloth.

That also allowed him to enter the history books.

There are only three players to have scored a Champions League hat-trick but lost the match. 🇹🇷 Irfan Can Kahveci 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Gareth Bale 🇧🇷 Ronaldo
– Wednesday, 2 December 2020

Now that is bittersweet.