{"id":302477,"date":"2025-11-23T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302477\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:30:07","slug":"eze-makes-arsenal-vs-tottenham-history-with-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302477\/","title":{"rendered":"Eze makes Arsenal vs. Tottenham history with hat-trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eberechi Eze<\/a> made history by becoming the first player to score a Premier League<\/a> hat-trick in the north London derby during Arsenal<\/a>‘s 4-1 victory against Tottenham on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Arsenal forward Eze, who rejected a move to Spurs in August in favour of a \u00a360 million ($78m) transfer to the Emirates from Crystal Palace<\/a>, netted a 35-minute hat-trick in his first derby appearance against the Gunners’ local rivals.<\/p>\n

Despite the fixture boasting attacking talents of the calibre of Ian Wright, Thierry Henry, Robin van Persie, Jurgen Klinsmann, Jermain Defoe and Harry Kane<\/a>, no Arsenal or Spurs player had scored a league hat-trick in this encounter since Alan Sunderland for the Gunners in Dec 1978.<\/p>\n

Only one Spurs player — Terry Dyson in Aug 1961 — has scored a North London derby hat-trick, but Eze became only the third Arsenal player (Ted Drake the first in Oct 1934) to achieve that feat with his match-winning contribution for Mikel Arteta’s Premier League leaders.<\/p>\n

Eberechi Eze made Arsenal vs. Tottenham history with his hat-trick.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Eze’s hat-trick was also the first of his professional career. He has played for Queen’s Park Rangers, Wycombe Wanderers and Crystal Palace before Arsenal.<\/p>\n

Eze said post-match to Sky Sports: “That’s a good one, man. Enjoyable day. Happy to help the team and to win today was a special.<\/p>\n

“It’s special. I am grateful. I prayed for it. This is what I pray for. I prayed for a hat-trick so I am grateful to God.<\/p>\n

“That was the prayer today. God gave it to me and that is faith, man. All my family is here and that makes it even more special for me.”<\/p>\n

Asked for the pick of his goals, Eze replied: “They are all good. Maybe the second one. That was my favourite. All of them are good for me because I have been working on the process to get in that position so that’s good again.”<\/p>\n

He added: “It is special. Words can’t explain this one today.”<\/p>\n

Leandro Trossard<\/a> gave Arsenal a 1-0 lead against Tottenham on Sunday before Eze took centre stage.<\/p>\n

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Although Richarlison<\/a> struck to give Tottenham hope, Eze completed his hat-trick to steal the show and make history.<\/p>\n

Arsenal are top of the Premier League after 12 games, six points clear of second-place Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eberechi Eze made history by becoming the first player to score a Premier League hat-trick in the north…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-302477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}