Netherlands star Cody Gakpo completes perfect group stage hat-trick 🧡

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Alex Mott·29 November 2022

Netherlands star Cody Gakpo completes perfect group stage hat-trick 🧡

The PSV Eindhoven youngster scored two already for the Netherlands in their opening games.

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But now, in their third and final group clash with Qatar, the 23-year-old has netted again, becoming only the second player in tournament history to score three group stage opening goals.

2 - Cody Gakpo is only the second player to open the scoring three times in the same group stage (1st and 2nd included) of a World Cup, after Alessandro Altobelli for Italy in the 1st group stage in 1986. Diamond💎. #NEDQAT
– Tuesday, 29 November 2022

It was a typically brilliant run into the final third which was rounded off by a superb low drive into the back of the net.

And it completes a perfect group stage hat-trick of a left foot, a right foot, and a headed goal.

2 - Cody Gakpo is just the second player from the Netherlands to score with his left foot, his right foot and his head in a single edition of the World Cup, after Wesley Sneijder in 2010. Variable. #NEDQAT #FIFAWorldCup
– Tuesday, 29 November 2022

PSV were rumoured to have turned down a bid from Manchester United for Gakpo over the summer.

And that price tag must be going up and up by the minute here.