To score four goals in one match – a poker as its known in Spain – is a rare set of cards to be dealt.
Since Antonio Emery – future manager Unai Emery’s grandfather – conceded the first strike in the history of La Liga nearly a century ago, less than 150 players have ever felt the incandescent joy of scoring as many as four goals in the same game.
Yet, only half a dozen have ever achieved such a feat against the most successful club in the history of the competition, Real Madrid.
Here are each of the select few to have hit those heights against such regal opposition.
