It was the perfect evening for Mario Pašalić, as he scored three of the four goals which allowed Atalanta to beat Venezia, with the Nerazzurri keeping a clean sheet.
And whoever scores a hat-trick has the right to take the ball of the match home to be kept among his most important memorabilia.
That’s not it: SuperMario also collected a series of interesting statistics, to say the least.

– Mario Pašalić is the midfielder who has been involved in the most goals in the top 5 European leagues 2021-2022 (12).

– Mario Pašalić is one of the 3 midfielders able to score at least two hat-tricks in the 3 points for a win era (since 1994-1995) in Serie A: the other ones are Iličić (4 times) and Kaká (twice).

– Mario Pašalić is one of the three midfielders from the top 5 European leagues to currently have 5 goals and 5 assists to his name, alongside Florian Wirtz (five goals and six assists) and Romain Faivre (five goals and five assists).

– Mario Pašalić is the only midfielder to have scored 2+ goal in this Serie A campaign (brace against Spezia and hat-trick against Venezia).

– Against Venezia, Mario Pašalić scored the second hat-trick of his career in Serie A: he had netted the first one against another newly-promoted side (against Brescia in July 2020).

– Mario Pašalić scored seven goals within the first 15 Serie A matches: the Nerazzurri midfielder has already improved his tally of six goals scored in 25 appearances last season.

Credits: Opta Facts-Stats Perform