UEFA Champions League 2019-20: 5 most memorable hat-tricks from the group stage

#2 Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich)

Serge Gnabry

Bayern Munich's Serge Gnabry scored four goals against Tottenham Hotspur on Matchday 2 of this season's UEFA Champions League. In the process, the German midfielder became the 93rd different player, and the third this season, to score a hat-trick in the competition.

In providing the 127th hat-trick in the Champions League, Gnabry became the fourth player from Germany to do so. His four-goal haul was the eighth hat-trick recorded in the Champions League by a Bayern Munich player; only Barcelona (13) and Real Madrid (11) have registered more hat-tricks in the Champions League than the Bavarian giants.

The 24-year-old's first four goals in the competition marked the first instance of a four-goal hat-trick scored in the second half of a Champions League game.

#1 Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)

Lewandowski exults after scoring a quadruple at Crvena Zvezda

Robert Lewandowski turned his attention to the Champions League after seeing his record 11-game Bundesliga scoring streak draw to a close against Dusseldorf.

One of three players to have scored on each of the four Matchdays of the 2019-20 UEFA Champions League, Lewandowski missed a spate of chances in the first half at Crvena Zvezda before putting the home team to the sword in the second.

In a devastating 14-minute spell which ended the game as a contest, Lewandowski recorded the fastest ever quadruple in Champions League history and registered his first hat-in the competition in over four years, becoming the only player after Lionel Messi to record multiple quadruples in the competition.

14 - Robert Lewandowski has scored in 14 minutes & 31 seconds the fastest ever quadruple in the history of the Champions League. Cyborg 🤖. @FCBayern pic.twitter.com/HOCI7Pk3bF

— OptaJean (@OptaJean) November 26, 2019

Lewandowski had also scored four goals in Borussia Dortmund's 4-1 win over Real Madrid in the first leg of the 2012-13 semi-finals.

The quadruple effort in the Serbian capital hauled Lewandowski to 10 goals and onto top-spot in this season's scoring charts. In the process, Lewandowski also equaled Cristiano Ronaldo's record of scoring in 9 consecutive group-stage games in the competition.

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