Their away record was even more striking: three wins, 12 draws. Right, to business. Where else to start but in Cuba in , where the top three teams were all unbeaten. Two of those four wins were by an scoreline, which must have made all the draws even more confusing. The shorter the season, the greater the scope for this sort of thing. They then went into a complex playoff system in which they lost both their games β but only on penalties after draws in the actual game. Across the whole competition they finished fourth with a record of P20 W7 D13 L0.
In , Botafogo finished fifth despite losing none of their 19 games β but they finished with more points than the two teams above them.
You can unravel the whole thing here. There are at least two other fifth-placed invincibles. Their record is even more striking because, unlike most of the previous examples, they had more wins than draws. The teams above them set an even faster pace and Jupiter SC missed out on the playoffs on goal difference.
Here are their results in full. See if you can spot the outlier: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , He also scored a hat-trick against Southampton for Leicester City.
It got me thinking: has any player scored a hat-trick against the same team on three occasions for three different teams? It got Masai thinking and Dirk Maas digging. He has found two examples of players who have scored hat-tricks against the same opposition for three different teams:. Bolton immediately recalled him from his loan and, on 4 January, he scored another injury-time winner against Exeter. Has anyone else scored in consecutive games against the same opponent for different clubs?
