Saints' five memorable hat-tricks from Le Tissier to Mané

For Southampton supporters, five hat-tricks, from Matt Le Tissier to Sadio Mané, define eras.

Daily Echo highlights five Southampton trebles that still echo on the terraces.

It began on a rain-lashed Valentine’s night in 1994 at The Dell, where Matt Le Tissier shredded Liverpool 4-2. He rolled in a penalty, crashed an instinctive volley, then bent a swerving effort past Bruce Grobbelaar.

At St Mary’s in October 2002, Fulham led 2-0 inside 25 minutes before James Beattie turned the tide. He netted a penalty before the break, levelled with a thumping header from Fabrice Fernandes’s cross, then sealed his first Premier League treble with a glancing header from Anders Svensson’s free-kick.

In March 2007 at Molineux, Marek Saganowski fronted a 6-0 dismantling of Wolverhampton Wanderers. He finished from close range and added two more to complete his treble.

By September 2011, rebuilding under Nigel Adkins in the Championship, Rickie Lambert hit a gritty hat-trick in a 3-2 win over Nottingham Forest. It embodied the revival and fuelled belief that League One was finally in the past.

On 16 May 2015 at St Mary’s, a 6-1 rout of Aston Villa was lit by Mané’s astonishing blitz. He scored three times in two minutes and 56 seconds, 176 seconds in total, breaking Robbie Fowler’s Premier League record.

A year later, Manchester City came seeking rhythm before a Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid, but Dusan Tadic’s passing and Mané’s pace powered a 4-2 win. It captured Ronald Koeman’s Saints at full tilt and underlined how dangerous they were on their day.

Source: Daily Echo

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