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Dutch star Dennis Bergkamp, the former Ajax and Arsenal striker, tops the list of players who managed to score 4 goals in one match in the Premier League competition.
Statistics released by the website revealed ” SquawkaBerkamp, the Englishman, is the first player in Premier League history to achieve a “Super Hattrick” assist in one game, when the former superstar scored 4 goals during his team’s confrontation with Leicester in 1999.
The site added that it had been waiting 7 years to repeat the completion of Bergkamp, through the late Spanish player José Antonio Reyes when he scored 4 decisive passes against Middlesbrough in 2006.
Then 3 other players after Bergkamp and José Antonio Reyes achieved this record in the English Premier League:
Cesc Fábregas against Blackburn Rovers in 2009.
Emmanuel Adebayor against Newcastle in 2012.
Santi Cazorla against Wigan Athletic in 2013.
On the other hand, Gareth Barry, the former Manchester City and West Bromwich Albion midfielder, tops the list of the most participating players in the history of Premier League competition.
Barry, who played in the St Bromwich, Aston Villa, Manchester City and Everton jersey, scored 653 games, beating Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs who finished the summer with 632 games.
Frank Lampard, a former Chelsea star, was third with 609 games, then David James was fourth on the list with 572 games in which he participated with the clubs “Liverpool, Aston Villa, Manchester City, West Ham and Portsmouth”.
Welsh Garry Spade finished fifth with 535 games, one more than current Liverpool star James Milner, who comes in sixth with 534 games and has a chance to break the record and progress several places on the roster in the coming period.
Emile Heskey, a former City and Liverpool star, is seventh on the list with 516 games, followed by Australian goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer with 514 games, then Jimmy Carragher in ninth with 508 games and Phil Neville in tenth place with 505 games.
