The fourth hat-trick of the season has been recorded in the Misli Premier League.
Idman.Biz reports with reference to the Professional Football League that Rauf Rustamli scored 3 goals against the guests in the 27th round match between "Karvan-Yevlax" and "Kapaz" (4:1).
3 such events occurred in the previous 27 rounds of the season. "Qarabağ" players Toral Bayramov in the fifth round against "Araz-Naxchivan" (5:0), Kamilo Duran in the 27th round against "Karvan-Yevlax" (7:0), and "Gabala" legionnaire Domi Massumo in the 18th round against "Imishli" (3:2) found the net 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 player with local status 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, two hat-tricks by one local football player were recorded. But such success by two players has not been experienced.
It should be noted that Rauf is also the author of the first hat-trick in the history of "Karvan-Yevlax" in the Premier League. The result of that match also went down in history as the first major victory and the first home victory of the Yevlakh representative in the top division.