{
  "id": 8888050,
  "title": "How many times has a player scored a hat-trick in a Premier League loss?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/how-many-times-has-a-player-scored-a-hat-trick-in-a-premier-league-8888050",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-21T09:13:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Yahoo Sports",
    "slug": "yahoo-sports",
    "url": "https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/many-times-player-scored-hat-090504040.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Only five different players in Premier League history have ever scored a hat-trick in a match that ended in defeat for their team. This remarkable feat occurred most recently in September 2026 when Brian Brobbey netted three goals for Sunderland in a 5-3 loss to Manchester City. Prior to Brobbey, Roque Santa Cruz achieved the same milestone on December 15, 2007, while playing for Blackburn Rovers in a 5-3 defeat by Wigan Athletic.\n\nThe other three instances of hat-tricks in a loss took place before the year 2000. On September 30, 1996, Dwight Yorke scored a treble for Aston Villa in a 4-3 loss at Newcastle United. Dion Dublin accomplished the same feat for Coventry City against Sheffield Wednesday on December 4, 1995, during a 4-3 defeat. Matt le Tissier, a former Southampton forward, holds the distinction of scoring hat-tricks in two Premier League defeats. He did so on May 8, 1993, in a 4-3 loss to Oldham Athletic, and again on August 19, 1995, in a 4-3 home loss to Nottingham Forest.",
  "summary": "Sunderland's Brian Brobbey scored the first hat-trick by a player on a losing side in the Premier League for 19 years - but how many others have done so?",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/far-from-their-best-to-a-joy-to-watch-ranking-premier-league-teams",
        "published": "2026-09-21T06:51:48.000Z"
      },
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        "outlet": "Yahoo Sports",
        "title": "'Far from their best' to 'a joy to watch' - ranking Premier League teams' start to season",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/far-from-their-best-to-a-joy-to-watch-ranking-premier-league-teams-8874682",
        "published": "2026-09-21T07:35:29.000Z"
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        "outlet": "IOL",
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        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/english-premier-league-talking-points-arsenal-stumbled-carrick-under",
        "published": "2026-09-21T10:24:00.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}