Samuel Eto’o arrived in the Premier League late into a career that had seen him become one of the most feared forwards in the game, a three-time winner of the Champions League during spells at Barcelona and Inter Milan.
The Cameroon international spent just a single season at Chelsea as he reunited with former Inter boss Jose Mourinho for the 2013/14 campaign, scoring 12 goals across all competitions with a hat-trick against Manchester United his most memorable performance.
Eto’o rolled back the years to score three times against the Red Devils, piling the pressure on the under-fire David Moyes who was struggling to deal with the weight of expectation at Old Trafford.
One of the most celebrated forwards of the modern era and a record four-time winner of the African Footballer of the Year award, here is Samuel Eto’o’s hat-trick for Chelsea against Manchester United.
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