Barcola Joins Liverpool’s Most Exclusive European Scoring Club

Three Goals In Linz Put Barcola Among Liverpool Greats Bradley Barcola’s start at Liverpool had been patchy, more promise than production. The French forward scored the first senior hat-trick of his club career, and he did it without fuss, three chances created or arriving, three finishes taken cleanly.

Liverpool beat LASK comfortably with Barcola at the heart of almost everything they did well going forward, and in doing so he joined a short and significant list in the club’s history.

A Short List Of European Hat-Trick Scorers Liverpool’s modern Champions League history was not always full of nights like this one. For a long stretch, a hat-trick in the competition was a genuine rarity for the club.