Xabi Prieto and other sterile hat-tricks

Xabi Prieto is one of those players side in the level of media attention without which the Spanish league would not be what it is. Quite a one club man who runs the Royal Society with a vision and a quality that would look the least bit in the selection if one day decide to summon Vicente Del Bosque.

The latest feat of San Sebastian was having managed to score a hat-trick at the Santiago Bernabéu, a milestone of which boast to their grandchildren if not for a triplet was useless. Despite his three goals, the Real was not able to win it in front met Cristiano Ronaldo, who came once again to the rescue of their own this season. But good Xabi Prieto is not the first misfortune happens to score three goals without them serve to win the match. Next we will review other cases that I have come to mind and some I've found on the net.

One thing I remember, the most recent occurred in European U19 that took place last summer in Estonia. We speak of the match between Spain and Portugal combined, on the second day of the group stage, which ended with a score of 3-3. In that match Jesse Rodriguez, one of the pearls of the quarry Madrid, was able to score three goals (min 8, 28 and 48), but the selection got lusa answer their goals tying the game three times, the last one penalty and at discount, with the canary in the dock and it had been replaced a few minutes before.

For the next time we go back a little over three years, to December 2009. The protagonist is Lisandro Lopez, who's shirt Olympique Lyonnais was able to achieve a hat-trick in just 35 minutes, putting his team ahead by 1-3 against Lille OSC . However, the dogs ended up going up the match with a final goal in stoppage Ivorian Gervinho.

The penultimate event will highlight what I found browsing for information about it and the truth is that I did not remember him, but to find it if I remembered that once had been the subject of some table talk at a bar frequented by then . This is a Wigan-Blackburn, December 2007, which ended with a final score of 5-3. Roque Santa Cruz, and current Malaga striker then the Rovers striker, scored all three goals for his team. A triplet did not help because Marcus Bent was also able to get his own hat-trick and, unlike the Paraguayan, he did find help their peers: Landzaat and Scharner scored and balance also fell on the side of The Latics.

Finally, we highlight an example that everyone will remember and that means a higher level in our particular desgraciómetro. A player who scored four goals that helped his team to win the match. Yes, we speak of poker Milinko Pantic FC Barcelona:

March 12, 1997. Quarter Finals of the Copa del Rey between two teams that had played in the final of the last edition, which had taken the mattress to sign her as remembered doublet of 96. The first leg match at the Vicente Calderon, had finished 2-2, which gave Barca an advantage for the return at the Nou Camp.

But in one of those fateful nights Vítor Bay, Pantic shone above all scoring three goals in the first half (the third from the penalty spot), leaving the tie on track for Atletico. But just around the break, Ronaldo (Ronaldo to dry, or Ronaldo or phenomenon, but Ronaldo never Gordito). But in full swing culé, Pantic appeared again with his fourth goal to put the 2-4 on the light. However, with 40 minutes remaining, the club did not give up and managed to finish the feat of going up the match with a goal of Figo, Ronaldo and the third in the fifth and final Pizzi.

PS. Some chickens under one hat-trick by Ronaldo at Old Trafford, wearing the shirt of Real Madrid in the quarter-finals of the Champions League 2002-03, when whites fell 4-3 to Manchester United of David Beckham. But despite the defeat at the Theatre of Dreams, we can not call this triplet or phenomenon as barren as the harvested 3-1 in the first leg at the Bernabeu, goals from Ronaldo, who left cheered by the English public, served to pass the Madrid semifinals.

What about you? Do you remember any other hat-trick sterile?