Kevin Schade scored his second hat trick in the Premier League. The German international from Brentford FC demonstrated his versatility in the process.
Left, right, with his head: Kevin Schade shone in Brentford’s 4-1 win over Bournemouth with a perfect hat trick, scoring each of his three goals with a different part of his body.
For goal number 1, the 24-year-old first won a robust footrace with Bafodé Diakité before confidently slotting the ball into the far corner with his left foot. The second goal followed a low cross from Yegor Yarmolyuk, which Schade reacted quickly to convert with his right foot. The German international then put the icing on the cake for himself and his team by heading home a cross from Mikkel Damsgaard in stoppage time.
Only Maxi Rodriguez needed fewer goals
“I hadn’t scored for a while and now I’ve scored three in one game, similar to last season. I’m just happy about my second hat trick here at Brentford,” Schade summed up Saturday afternoon from his perspective. In fact, his last goal (in early November in a 3-1 win over Newcastle) was followed by seven competitive games without a goal, including Germany’s 2-0 World Cup qualifying win in Luxembourg.
The lightning-fast striker scored his last and first hat trick for the Bees on matchday 13 of last season against Leicester (4-1). Of all the players who have scored multiple hat tricks in the Premier League, only Maxi Rodriguez (15 goals, two hat tricks) needed fewer goals for his second hat trick than Schade, who now has 19 goals in the English top flight. The two hat tricks thus account for around 32 percent of his goal tally.
Bees are “getting better with every game”
For Brentford, who will not be back in action until New Year’s Day against Tottenham (9 p.m.), the 2025 calendar year is now over. Schade’s conclusion: “It’s not so much about me. It’s more about the team, the new structure, the new coach and many new players. I think you can generally say that we are getting better from game to game.“
Although the Bees are fourth in the 2025/26 home table with only one defeat, the German still sees room for improvement in away games, ”but that’s a process. I’m glad we’ve done well so far.” Brentford had never had 26 points in the Premier League at this stage before. The only question that remained was where the hat trick ball would find a place in Schade’s home, but the 24-year-old had already thought about that: “Next to my second PlayStation,” the player of the match announced with a grin.