The 4th hat-trick of the season has been recorded in the Misli Premier League. Sport24.az reports with reference to the Professional Football League that Rauf Rustamli scored 3 goals against the guests in the "Karvan-Yevlakh" - "Kapaz" match (4:1) of the XXVII round.
3 such events have occurred in the previous 27 rounds of the season. "Qarabağ" players Toral Bayramov in the V round against "Araz-Nakhchivan" (5:0), Kamilo Duran in the XXVII round against "Karvan-Yevlakh" (7:0), "Gabala" legionnaire Domi Massumo in the XVIII round against "Imishli" (3:2) found the way to the goal three times.
Rauf became the second Azerbaijani to score a hat-trick this season after Toral. Thus, for the first time in the last 16 years, more than one local player has scored a hat-trick.
The last time such an event occurred was in the 2009/2010 season. In that championship, 3 local players - Samir Musayev, Nadir Nabiyev and Farid Guliyev scored a hat-trick.
In subsequent years, there were two hat-tricks by one local football player. But such a success of two players has not been experienced.
It should be noted that Rauf is also the first hat-trick scorer in the history of "Karvan-Yevlakh" in the Premier League. The result of that match also went down in history as the first big victory and the first home victory of the Yevlakh representative in the top division.