Before we start this week, anyone who has spent time following football in Germany knows that there is a hat trick and then there is a Dreierpack . We must always make a clear distinction.

The former refers only to a pure hat trick, following strict guidelines: all three goals must be scored by the same player in one half of play, with no goals scored by anyone else in between. That takes some doing.

A Dreierpack is the more liberal description used when a player simply nets three times in one game, as Harry Kane and Oliver Burke -- English and Scottish forwards respectively -- did in the Bundesliga past weekend. It's what the rest of the world calls a hat trick.

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