Easy: Hat-trick
Easy: Hat-trick
Premier Vocabulary is a mini-podcast for you to learn football English one word at a time. We have three different levels for you: easy, medium and hard.
This episode is easy so we’re looking at common football words and phrases. Things you use and need to know to play the game.
Summary
Learn more football vocabulary with Premier Skills English. Each lesson in our Premier Vocabulary section looks at one football word or phrase. This lesson looks at the word hat-trick.
You can find more lessons on the side of this page.
Transcript
Rich: Hello my name’s Rich and welcome to Premier Skills English - Premier Vocabulary.
Jack: Hi there! I’m Jack. We’re here to help you with your football English. Premier Vocabulary is a mini-podcast for you to learn football English one word at a time.
Rich: We have three different levels for you: easy, medium and hard.
Jack: This episode is easy so we’re looking at common football words and phrases. Things you use and need to know to play the game.
Rich: The word we are looking at in this episode is hat-trick.
Jack: A hat-trick is three goals in one match. Listen to a section of a match report:
Rich: Sergio Aguero opened the scoring with a powerful right-footed goal in the 12th-minute and got his second with his left five minutes later after a fine pass from Riyad Mahrez. Aguero completed his hat-trick in the second half when he headed home a Kevin De Bruyne cross.
Jack: In this example, Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero scored three goals - he scored a hat-trick.
Rich: Sergio Aguero has scored the most Premier League hat-tricks in Premier League history. He’s scored twelve hat-tricks in the Premier League.
Jack: Traditionally, if a player scores a hat-trick, they get to keep the match ball.
Rich: I imagine that Sergio Aguero needs an extra room in his house for all the match balls he’s got to keep
Jack: In the example, Sergio Aguero scored one goal with his right foot, one with his left foot and one with his head. Do you know what this is called?
Rich: Yes, it’s called a perfect hat-trick. What if one of the goals goes in off your bottom?
Jack: I don’t think it’d be described as perfect - lucky maybe?
Rich: So, where does the word hat-trick come from? I think it’s used in connection with magic. The hat trick is the one when the magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.
Jack: Well, it seems that the word also has a more general meaning connected to sport. A hat-trick generally means doing three special things in one game and it was used first in the sport of cricket and then many other sports started to use the term as well.
Rich: One player took three wickets in three deliveries which in cricket is very special and very difficult to do.
Jack: This happened a long time ago but the story is that fans were so amazed that they collected money for this player and with all the money they bought him a nice hat.
Rich: A nice hat? I think hats were more popular in the nineteenth century than they are now!
Final whistle
Jack: There is the final whistle!
Rich: We’ll be back soon with more Premier Vocabulary from Premier Skills English.
Jack: Bye for now and enjoy your football.
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Who has scored the most Premier League hat-tricks?
What is a perfect hat-trick?
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20/02/2022
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Sergio Aguero has scored the most PL hat-tricks.
A perfect hat-trick means the player uses his head ,left foot and right foot scores goal separately.
20/02/2022 08:01
Manchester United
738
Sergio Aguero has scored the most PL hat-tricks.
A perfect hat-trick means the player uses his head ,left foot and right foot scores goal separately.
25/10/2021
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Today Salah from Liverpool scored a hat trick against Manchester United. The match was marred by Pogba. One of the Liverpool players was stretchered off the pitch after getting a tackle from Pogba, who received a red card.
25/10/2021 00:00
Manchester United
293
Today Salah from Liverpool scored a hat trick against Manchester United. The match was marred by Pogba. One of the Liverpool players was stretchered off the pitch after getting a tackle from Pogba, who received a red card.
07/05/2021
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Man City's Sergio Aguero;
Is that one when a player scores with both feet and a header.
07/05/2021 17:48
Arsenal
1512
Man City's Sergio Aguero;
Is that one when a player scores with both feet and a header.
22/06/2020
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Sergio aguero
scored one goal with his right foot, one with his left foot and one with his head.
Raul jimenez in México made a perfect hat trick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIGVOzQd1Xw&t=507s
22/06/2020 20:32
Wolverhampton Wanderers
435
Sergio aguero
scored one goal with his right foot, one with his left foot and one with his head.
Raul jimenez in México made a perfect hat trick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIGVOzQd1Xw&t=507s
22/06/2020
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aguero scored the most hat-trick in premier league.
perfect hat-trick is scored by right leg,left leg and the head
22/06/2020 12:27
Manchester City
6
aguero scored the most hat-trick in premier league.
perfect hat-trick is scored by right leg,left leg and the head
20/06/2020
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Presently, Sadio Mane holds the fastest Premier League hat-trick record. He scored the three goals in just under three minutes from kick-off. He was then a Southampton player.
20/06/2020 11:12
Chelsea
1749
Presently, Sadio Mane holds the fastest Premier League hat-trick record. He scored the three goals in just under three minutes from kick-off. He was then a Southampton player.
20/06/2020
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A player who scores a hat-rick, three goals, in a single match using different body parts other than hands is said to have scored perfect hat-trick.
What do we call a player who scores three own goals in one match? Hat-trick or something? May be there is a word for such players.
20/06/2020 11:08
Chelsea
1749
A player who scores a hat-rick, three goals, in a single match using different body parts other than hands is said to have scored perfect hat-trick.
What do we call a player who scores three own goals in one match? Hat-trick or something? May be there is a word for such players.
19/06/2020
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Sergio Aguero
scored one goal with his right foot, one with his left foot and one with his head
19/06/2020 16:50
Arsenal
25
Sergio Aguero
scored one goal with his right foot, one with his left foot and one with his head
19/06/2020
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Norwich 2 : 1 Southampton
Tottenham 1 : 1 ManUnited
19/06/2020 12:46
Liverpool
6561
Norwich 2 : 1 Southampton
Tottenham 1 : 1 ManUnited
19/06/2020
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A perfect hat-trick might happen when the author's team has performed a come-back from 0 : 2 to 3 : 2 or something like this by those goals.
19/06/2020 12:41
Liverpool
6561
A perfect hat-trick might happen when the author's team has performed a come-back from 0 : 2 to 3 : 2 or something like this by those goals.
18/06/2020
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Sergio Agüero has scored the most hat-tricks in the Premier League by netting 12 for Manchester City.
Alan Shearer scored 11 Premier League hat-tricks for Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United.
For me the perfect hat-trick is that one scored by left foot , right foot and a header to watch various techniques :)
18/06/2020 18:45
Manchester United
6524
Sergio Agüero has scored the most hat-tricks in the Premier League by netting 12 for Manchester City.
Alan Shearer scored 11 Premier League hat-tricks for Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United.
For me the perfect hat-trick is that one scored by left foot , right foot and a header to watch various techniques :)