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When Kevin Schade netted a hat-trick in Brentford’s 4-1 win over Bournemouth two days after Christmas, he became the only German player ever to have scored two trebles in the Premier League, having also struck three in a November 2024 victory over Leicester City.
His goals against Bournemouth also saw him bump Michael Ballack out of the list of Germany’s top ten most prolific scorers in the English top flight. Schade seems under-appreciated and perhaps underrated — in keeping, you’d have to say, with Brentford’s whole shtick.
