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It is rare for a player to score hat-tricks, and evidently rarer still to score a quadruple (4 goals in a game) or a quintuple in a competitive football game in modern times. It is evidenced in the fact that no player since Archie Thompson has scored six in a game since the Australian player scored 13 past American Samoa in a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifier. An elite group of players have scored 5 goals in a game during the decade, but none have done so in an international tournament like the World Cup, European Championships or the Copa America. Let us meet this exclusive group.
#10: Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United)
Ending an 11-game scoring drought in some style, Manchester United striker Dimitar Berbatov scored 5 past Blackburn Rovers in a Premier League game of the 2010-11 season. It made the Bulgarian player the first after Alan Shearer, Andy Cole, and Jermain Defoe to score 5 goals in a Premier League game.
# 9: Radamel Falcao (Atlético Madrid)
Radamel Falcao became the first player in a decade to score 5 goals in a Liga game when he did so in Atletico Madrid’s 6-0 win over Deportivo La Coruna in the 2012-13 Liga season. Fernando Morientes was the last player to score a quintuplet in a Liga game. The Spanish striker scored 5 goals for Real Madrid against Las Palmas in a league game of the 2001-02 season. In the process, Falcao stole a march on the Liga’s two all-time top-scorers Messi and Ronaldo by beating both to become the first player since Morientes to score 5 in a Liga game.
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#8: Lionel Messi (Barcelona)
Lionel Messi scored 5 goals for Barcelona against Bayer Leverkusen in a Round of 16 game in the 2011-12 UEFA Champions League. It made Messi the first player to score 5 in a Champions League game - a feat subsequently equalled only by Brazilian striker Luiz Adriano for Shakhtar Donetsk in the group-stage of the 2015-16 edition of the competition.It also marked the only time Messi scored 5 in a game for Barcelona in all competitions.
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#7: Miroslav Klose (Lazio)
Miroslav Klose became the first player to score 5 goals in a Serie A game when the German striker scored five past Bologna for Lazio in a league game of the 2012-13 season. It made the all-time FIFA World Cup record scorer the first Lazio player to do so and the first player since Roberto Pruzzo (1986) to score five goals in a Serie A game.
#6: Carlos Eduardo (Nice)
Carlos Eduardo became the only player to score 5 goals in a Ligue 1 game during the 2010s when the on-loan Brazilian player from Porto did so for Nice in a 7-1 win against Guingamp in the 2014-15 Ligue 1 season.
#5: Luiz Adriano
Luiz Adriano emulated Lionel Messi to score 5 goals in a Champions League game when the Brazilian did so for Shakhtar Donetsk against BATE Borisov in a group-stage game in the 2014-15 edition of the competition. No player has since scored as many in a Champions League game since the Brazilian.
# 4: Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid): TWICE
Ronaldo bagged his first quintuple haul in the Liga when the Portuguese marksman scored 5 in Real Madrid’s 9-1 win over Granada in a Liga game of the 2015-16 season. Few months later, Ronaldo became the first player to score multiple quintuples in the Top 5 leagues when the prolific striker netted five past Espanyol in a 6-0 win for Madrid in a 2016-17 as the Spanish capital club went on to win the league that season.
#3: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich)
Robert Lewandowski became the first substitute to score 5 goals in the Bundesliga when the Bayern Munich striker came on in the second half of a 2015-16 Bundesliga game against Wolfsburg and scored 5 past the bedazzled opponents during a stunning 9-minute blitzkrieg.In the process, Lewandowski smashed the records of fastest hat-trick, quadruple, and qunituple in the German top-flight.
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#2: Sergio Agüero (Manchester City)
Sergio Agüero emulated Dimitar Berbatov as the only players to score 5 goals in a Premier League game in the 2010s when the Argentinian striker scored 5 past Newcastle United for Manchester City in a league game of the 2015-16 season. In the process, Aguero became only the 5th player overall to score 5 goals in a game in the Premier League era.
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#1: Luka Jovic (Eintracht Frankfurt)
20-year-old Luka Jovic became the youngest player to score 5 goals in a game across the top leagues in Europe when the Serbian did so for Eintracht Frankfurt in a 7-1 win over Fortuna Düsseldorf in the 2018-19 Bundesliga season. It puts Jovic in the company of prolific scorers like Ronaldo, Messi, Lewandowski, and Aguero to score 5 goals in a game.
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