<P> Since the inception of the English football league competition, the Premier League, in 1992, more than 100 players have scored three goals (a hat - trick) or more in a single match . The first player to achieve the feat was Frenchman Eric Cantona, who scored three times for Leeds United in a 5--0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur . Twenty players have scored more than three goals in a match; of these, five players, Andy Cole, Alan Shearer, Jermain Defoe, Dimitar Berbatov and Sergio Agüero have scored five . Sadio Mané holds the record for the quickest Premier League hat - trick, netting three times for Southampton against Aston Villa in 2 minutes 56 seconds, breaking Robbie Fowler's record, while in 1999, Manchester United player Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored four goals in twelve minutes as a substitute against Nottingham Forest, "the fastest scorer of a four - goal haul on record in England". </P> <P> The fixture between Arsenal and Southampton at Highbury in 2003 saw both Jermaine Pennant and Robert Pirès score a hat - trick for the home team . In 2007, Blackburn's Roque Santa Cruz and Wigan's Marcus Bent both scored hat - tricks in a match that Wigan won 5--3 . Only five players--Les Ferdinand, Ian Wright, Didier Drogba, Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane--have scored hat - tricks in two consecutive league games . Rooney's hat - trick on 10 September 2011 and Matt Le Tissier's hat - trick on 19 August 1995 were scored through set pieces, which consists of penalty kicks and direct free kicks . Everton's Duncan Ferguson and Salomón Rondón of West Bromwich Albion are the only Premier League players to have scored a hat - trick of headers . </P>

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