Atletico Madrid have had a quite unspectacular second half of the season, however they’ve had a second of greatness of their La Liga conflict in opposition to Actual Sociedad on the RiyadhAir Metropolitano.
Various disappointing leads to 2025 have seen Barcelona and Actual Madrid drop Atleti within the La Liga title race, and with 4 matches to go, the most effective that Diego Simeone’s facet can realistically hope for is third within the standings. A victory over La Actual would have ensured an enormous step was taken in the direction of that place being finalised, and they’re very a lot heading in the right direction for a win – and an enormous one at that.
Alexander Sorloth dominates Actual Sociedad with purpose blitz
It was complete carnage within the first half on the Metropolitano, and it was attributable to Alexander Sorloth. The Norwegian striker opened the scoring in opposition to his former membership after seven minutes, and fewer than 4 minutes later, he had added targets two and three.
As per MD, Sorloth’s hat-trick took precisely three minutes and 57 seconds to attain, and in doing so, he now holds the report for the quickest hat-trick in La Liga historical past. He has bested David Villa, who took simply over 4 minutes to attain thrice for Valencia in opposition to Athletic Membership again in 2006.
🚨🇳🇴 Alexander Sørloth’s report breaking hattrick: 3 minutes and 57 seconds.@atletico_stats_ pic.twitter.com/DahLmrdRMu
— Atletico Universe (@atletiuniverse) Could 10, 2025
Sorloth additionally broke one other report, as by scoring his third by the eleventh minute, he scored the earliest hat-trick in La Liga historical past. And he wasn’t even executed there, and he would discover the again of the web on the half hour mark to attain his and Atleti’s fourth of the night.
THE EARLIEST HATTRICK IN THE HISTORY OF LALIGA. 😱
7′ Sørloth (1-0)
10′ Sørloth (2-0)
11′ Sørloth (3-0) pic.twitter.com/df8thPfWdA— LALIGA English (@LaLigaEN) Could 10, 2025
4 targets strikes Alexander Sorloth up the charts within the Pichichi Trophy race
Sorloth has had a quite uncommon first season at Atleti. He has usually been utilised from the bench (which Simeone spoke on not too long ago), however regardless of this, he now has 17 targets in La Liga – which is essentially the most amongst his teammates (Julian Alvarez is closest with 15). And he’s now fourth within the Pichchi Trophy race behind Robert Lewandowski, Kylian Mbappe and Ante Budimir.