Ladies and gentlemen, meet this season's top scorer in the UEFA Champions League!
Harry Kane has proven to be key for Mauricio Pochettino's crew in their quest to get past the group stage of the competition, and with his performance today, the Englishman assured a spot for himself in the all-time scoring list of players coming from football's birthplace.
7 - Harry Kane is the 7th different English player to score a CL hat-trick (after A. Cole, Newell, Owen, Rooney, Shearer, Welbeck). Super. pic.twitter.com/4eIRxhijYv
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) September 26, 2017
In fact, Kane joined a Real Madrid player as the only ones in Spurs' history to score three goals in one UCL game.
Harry Kane is the 2nd player to score a #UCL hat-trick for Tottenham, after Gareth Bale in the 4-3 defeat at Inter in Oct 2010 pic.twitter.com/9cswgmx96F
— Sky Sports Statto (@SkySportsStatto) September 26, 2017
With numbers like these, is it safe to say that Kane is the best striker in the world right now? His hat-trick stats this year are quite something!
Harry Kane has now scored 9 hat-tricks for Tottenham. #UCL pic.twitter.com/S4ycyWETRX
— Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) September 26, 2017
Harry Kane has as many hat-tricks in 2017 (6) as Messi (2), Ronaldo (2) and Lewandoski (2) combined. pic.twitter.com/vc87IlXGBr
— Spurs Stat Man (@SpursStatMan) September 26, 2017