Quiz! Name the 23 Premier League players with Champions League hat-tricks

This week, a certain red-hot Tottenham striker further enhanced his growing legacy with a hat-trick in Europe’s top club competition (one clue: it wasn’t Vincent Janssen).

The Champions League originated in the early '90s and - unlike the rebranded Premier League - they were actually tweaking the set-up of the competition as well as just its name. Group stages were gradually being phased in to ensure that big clubs couldn't go out too earl… sorry; to ensure a broader and grander competition.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.