Sunday Times

Hat-trick hero

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After only three goals in total at his previous three World Cups, Cristiano Ronaldo doubled his tournament tally in one night in Russia on Friday. He has now scored in eight consecutiv­e major tournament­s going back to Euro 2004, when he was a teenager. He is just the fourth player to score at four World Cups, following in the footsteps of Pele and German duo Uwe Seeler and Miroslav Klose

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