Portugal defeated Switzerland 6-1 in the last quarter-final of the World Cup in Qatar, played on Tuesday evening.
The biggest hero behind the crushing readings was 21 years old Goncalo Ramoswho had found himself in the starting line-up Cristiano Ronaldo the place.
Ramos finished in the 17th, 51st and 67th minutes of the game.
The previous player to score a hat-trick in his first World Cup match in the starting line-up was Miroslav Klose. At that time, however, it was a group stage game, when the German striker scored a hat-trick in the opening group of the 2002 Games, in an 8-0 win over Saudi Arabia.
On Tuesday, Goncalo Ramos still passed Raphaël Guerreiro 4–0 goal. According to Opta, Ramos’ night was the first since the 1994 Games when one player has been involved in at least four goals. Then Russia Oleg Salenko scored five goals in Cameroon’s net and assisted one in a 6–1 win. Salenko is also the only one to score five goals in one World Cup match.
The previous World Cup playoff hat trick was seen in 1990, when Czechoslovakia Tomas Skuhravy scored three times in a 4–1 win over Costa Rica.
Skuhravy’s and Klose’s hat tricks are the only ones in the history of the World Cup where all three hits have been made by headers.
In total, there have been 53 hat tricks in the history of the World Cup, 19 of them in the playoffs.
The hat trick has been done by 49 different players. Four players have managed the hat trick twice: Sandor Kocsis (1954), Just Fontaine (1958), Gerd Müller (1970) and Gabriel Batistuta (1994 and 1998).
The only World Cup tournament that did not feature a hat trick was in Germany in 2006. The most hat tricks, eight, were seen at the 1954 Games in Switzerland.
Instead, the first hat trick was done at the 1930 Games, i.e. the first World Cup tournament in history, by the USA Bert Patenaude.
Until the 2000s, however, Argentina, who painted three times a couple of days after Patenaude, was considered the first Guillermo Stabilen hat trick.
The international football association Fifa confirmed, among other things According to The Guardian (You’re moving to another service) it wasn’t until 2006 that Patenaude had pulled off a hat trick. Earlier, another of his hits was a marked teammate To Tom Florie.
– The evidence of historians and football fans, as well as long studies and confirmations from the American Football Association have helped in the decision-making process, Fifa said in its press release.
Patenaude himself did not fight for his hat trick. He died in 1974.
Portugal’s Ramos became the second youngest player in history to complete a hat trick in the playoffs, Pelé after. Pelé is also overall the youngest player to have scored a hat trick at the World Cup.
The oldest player to score a World Cup hat trick is Cristiano Ronaldo, who scored three goals against Spain in the 2018 Games at the age of 33 years and 130 days. The match that ended 3–3 is the only one in the history of the World Cup in which a hat-trick was scored and ended in a draw.
In the history of the World Cup, one player has scored no less than four goals so that his team lost. It was Poland Ernst Wilimowski, but Brazil won the quarterfinals of the 1938 Games in overtime 6–5. At that time, the World Cup was played in a direct playoff format.
Two players have scored a hat trick but lost the match. Swiss Josef Hügi scored three goals, but Austria won the 1954 quarterfinals 7–5. The match is still the richest in World Cup history. Soviet Union Igor Belanov scored a hat-trick in the quarter-finals in 1986, but Belgium won 4–3 in the follow-up match.
English Geoff Hurst is the only player to have scored a hat trick in the World Cup final. He scored once in regular time and twice in extra time when England won their only World Cup in history in 1966. Germany eventually lost the final 2–4.
The fastest hat-trick from the start of the match came in 24 minutes, when Erich Probst scored in the 4th, 21st and 24th minutes when Austria beat Czechoslovakia 5–0 in 1954.
If you look at the time between the first and third goal, the fastest hat-trick scorer is Laszlo Kiss. He scored in the 69th, 72nd and 76th minutes as Hungary 1982 thrashed El Salvador 10–1. Kiss’s hat trick is also the only one scored by a substitute player in World Cup history.
Four players who had already scored a hat-trick in the World Cup arena have participated in the Qatar Games: Harry Kane, Thomas MüllerRonaldo and Xherdan Shaqiri. Among them in the quarter-finals are Kane and Ronaldo – and of course the newest Portuguese hero Ramos.