"Before we start this week, anyone who has spent time following football in Germany knows that there is a hat trick and then there is a Dreierpack. We must always make a clear distinction. The former refers only to a pure hat trick, following strict guidelines: all three goals must be scored by the same player in one half of play, with no goals scored by anyone else in between. That takes some doing."
"They might both hail from the Insel -- the island, as the U.K. is often referred to by Germans -- but there the similarities end. I find myself thinking that if anything, I probably underestimated Kane before he arrived in Munich in 2023. Of course, we all knew he was a highly productive finisher, but his range of attributes seemingly gets more substantial with the passage of time."
German football distinguishes a strict hat trick from a Dreierpack: a hat trick requires three goals by the same player in one half with no other goals in between, while a Dreierpack denotes any three goals in a single game. Harry Kane and Oliver Burke each netted three goals on Matchday 4 of the Bundesliga. Kane’s skill set has broadened since joining Bayern Munich, and he has converted 17 of 17 Bundesliga penalties to start his career in the competition. Kane approaches his 100th goal for Bayern while continuing to set new performance benchmarks.
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