There was only two players who scored three hat-tricks in a major European league last season. One was Harry Kane. The other was neither Erling Haaland nor Kylian Mbappe. It was London-born former Arsenal striker Mika Biereth for Monaco.

He achieved the feat within the first seven games of his Ligue 1 career following a January move from Austrian club Sturm Graz. One year prior to that, Biereth had made his big breakthrough in senior football while on loan in Scotland with Motherwell.

"It is fantastic what he is doing," Stuart Kettlewell tells Sky Sports . Kettlewell, now in charge at Kilmarnock, was Motherwell's manager at the time. "He has really captured the imagination. Am I surprised? Absolutely not. We could see the talent that he had."

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