THE 11TH HAT TRICK SCORER AT NOU CAMP
Karim Benzema: 11th hat-trick scorer at Nous Camp
Karim Benzema became the 11th player in the history to score a hat-trick against Barcelona at Nou Camp. He made it in the 2nd leg of Copa del Rey semifinal (4-0).
The first to do this was Luis Aragonés in 1961, playing then for Oviedo; the second, 2 years later, Ferenc Puskás, who was the only Real Madrid player before Benzema to accomplish such a feat.
The only player who scored a poker at Nou Camp is Milinko Pantić. Curiously, despite his 4 goals, his team (Atlético Madrid) lost the game. Moreover, this is the only case for a team whose player scored 3+ goals at Nou Camp finishing as a lost side.
For Benzema, this is the 2nd match with a hat-trick in 4 days. Now he has 17 goals in all tournaments the current calendar year. He caught up with the world top scorers’ leader Marcus Rashford.
| HAT-TRICKS TO | BARCELONA | AT | NOU | CAMP | ||
| Player | Nationality | Goals | Date | Team (Score) | Tourn. | |
| 1 | Luis Aragonés | Spain | 3 | 30/04/1961 | Oviedo 5-3 | NL |
| 2 | Ferenc Puskás | Spain | 3 | 27/01/1963 | Real Madrid 5-1 | NL |
| 3 | Tony Kurbos | Germany | 3 | 03/10/1984 | Metz 4-1 | CWC |
| 4 | Manuel Peña | Spain | 3 | 20/12/1987 | Valladolid 4-2 | NL |
| 5 | Baltazar | Brazil | 3 | 29/03/1989 | Atlético Madrid 3-3 | NC |
| 6 | Francisco Higuera | Spain | 3 | 30/08/1994 | Zaragoza 5-4 | NSC |
| 7 | Milinko Pantić | Yugoslavia | 4 | 12/03/1997 | Atlético Madrid 4-5 | NC |
| 8 | Andriy Shevchenko | Ukraine | 3 | 05/11/1997 | Dynamo Kyiv 4-0 | CL |
| 9 | Diego Forlán | Uruguay | 3 | 22/05/2005 | Villarreal 3-3 | NL |
| 10 | Kylian Mbappé | France | 3 | 16/02/2021 | PSG 4-1 | CL |
| 11 | Karim Benzema | France | 3 | 05/04/2023 | Real Madrid 4-0 | NC |
NL, NC, NSC = National League, Cup, SuperCup
CL = Champions’ League
CWC = Cup Winners’ Cup