Manchester City Once A Blue

Which players have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final? 

It’s a question that’s probably been used in pub quizzes across the United Kingdom and beyond and, for many football fans, it appears to have a simple answer. 

Geoff Hurst in 1966 and Kylian Mbappe in 2022. 

But a third player has also achieved this remarkable feat. One who’s time at City was equally brief, but instrumental in a historic moment for the Club. 

The title might have been a giveaway, but it’s none other than the main protagonist of this feature: Carli Lloyd. 

Mbappe’s hat-trick saw his career come of age and Hurst’s hat-trick saw football come home, but neither player – for all their completely deserved plaudits – scored as audacious a goal as Lloyd en route to her treble in the 2015 World Cup final. 

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