Jack Dunn did his best Robbie Fowler impression on Wednesday night to notch a quick-fire hat-trick as Liverpool U23s beat Bangor City 6-0.
Dunn’s trio of goals came within eight minutes of each other and all inside the final 15 minutes of the match, after he had entered the action as a half-time sub.
#LFC beat Bangor City 6-0 in an Under-23 friendly, Jack Dunn netting a hat-trick & Coventry’s Cian Harries played. https://t.co/THuSn8iMcp pic.twitter.com/srFln24lD3
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Liverpool players have a proud history of scoring rapid hat-tricks. Fowler’s famous Anfield triple against Arsenal in 1994 took just four minutes and 32 seconds. It was a Premier League record until Reds star Sadio Mane put three past Aston Villa in two minutes and 56 seconds while playing for former club Southampton in May 2015.
Dunn’s hat-trick won’t last as long in the memory as either of those, having come in front of a modest crowd of 2,000 fans at the Bangor University Stadium.
However, it was an impressive feat nonetheless – and not his first hat-trick of the season. Dunn came off the bench to bag three times for Morecambe in a 5-4 EFL Cup win over Rotherham United back in August.
Toni Gomes also found the net against Bangor, while Harry Wilson bagged a brace.
Despite Liverpool spending most of the night on the attack, many eyes were firmly fixed on 19-year-old centre-back Cian Harries.
Teenager Harries, who is currently on the books of Coventry City, was named on the teamsheet as a trialist.
With Liverpool thoroughly dominant, Harries wasn’t overly tested in a defensive capacity, spending most of his Reds debut confidently knocking passes around from his base near the halfway line.
Coventry City’s Welsh defender Cian Harries played for Liverpool u23 at Bangor City last night https://t.co/unDj8hdNHW pic.twitter.com/P6IstWEDvb
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Harries, who is known as a ball-playing centre-back, has made 15 first-team appearances for Coventry to date.