In this fixture, which has been played out 164 times in the LaLiga, Madrid have triumphed on 87 occasions, while losing 38 times and drawing on 39 occasions.
Let us have a look at the players who have scored a LaLiga hat-trick in the Madrid derby.
#5 Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid)
Cristiano Ronaldo became only the 5th player to score a LaLiga hat-trick in the Madrid derby when he netted thrice for Real Madrid in a 4-1 victory at Atlético in 2011-12.
It marked the first time in 59 years that a Madrid player had netted a LaLiga hat-trick against the Rojiblancos.
Ronaldo followed up on his feat by scoring all three goals against Atlético in a 2016-17 LaLiga game. This made the Portuguese forward the only player to score two LaLiga hat-tricks in the history of the Madrid derby.
Ronaldo, who also has two Champions League hat-tricks against Atlético, is the all-time LaLiga record holder with 34 hat-tricks.
#4 Baltazar (Atlético Madrid)
Baltazar became the second Atléti player to net a LaLiga hat-trick in the Madrid derby when he scored all three goals in Atlético’s 3-3 home draw with Real Madrid in the 1988-89 season.
In the process, the Brazilian became the second non-Spanish player to score three goals in a Madrid derby in the LaLiga.
This also marked the only instance of the scorer of a LaLiga hat-trick in the Madrid derby not ending up on the winning side. Atlético and Real Madrid shared the spoils in a six-goal thriller at Atléti’s erstwhile Vicente Calderón home ground.
#3 Alfredo Di Stéfano (Argentina)
Alfredo Di Stéfano became the second ‘Madridista’ to score a LaLiga hat-trick when the prolific striker scored thrice in Real Madrid’s 4-3 win at Atlético in the 1953-54 season.
The Argentine, in the process, became the first non-Spanish player to net three goals in the league against Atléti.
#2 Pruden (Atlético Madrid)
Prudencio Sánchez Fernández, commonly known as Pruden, was the first Atlético player to score three LaLiga goals in a game against Real Madrid. He netted all three goals in Atléti’s 3-1 away win over Real Madrid at the Estadio Chamartín in the 1940-41 season.
#1 Gaspar Rubio (Real Madrid)
Gaspar Rubio was the first player to score a LaLiga hat-trick in the Madrid derby. The Spanish forward did so by scoring thrice in Real Madrid 4-1 win over Atlético in the 1929-30 season, at Real’s erstwhile home ground of Estadio Chamartín.
Rubio’s three-goal haul came in the third edition of the Madrid derby (all in LaLiga).
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