Ramos targets first Real Madrid treble

While Barcelona have twice made a clean sweep of La Liga, the Copa del Rey and the Champions League their rivals have never achieved the feat
Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos has set his sights on winning the treble this season as he looks to build on a successful 2016.
Arch-rivals Barcelona are ..

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Chiellini: Juve can go on to win treble in 2017

The Bianconeri suffered a defeat to AC Milan in the Supercoppa Italiana, but their star defender believes it could lead to positive things, as it did two years ago
Giorgio Chiellini believes Juventus can recover from their Supercoppa Italiana defeat to AC Milan to put in strong displays in Serie A,..

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A titan, a treble and a hat-trick hero

© Getty Images A Brazilian ant going into eternal hibernation, a little Belgian ripping up records and a Gallic composer boasting more trophies than defeats feature in FIFA.com’s latest stats review, along with a resurgent Galician, a landmark-achieving Albanian and penalty-repelling Croatian.
42 years had passed since Juventus striker Pietro Anastasi became the last player to score successive hat-tricks in Serie A until Dries Mertens became the next – not bad for a man who was urged to score more goals by previous Napoli coach Rafa Benitez. The 29-year-old Belgium winger, playing as a makeshift forward in sky blue, followed up a treble in the 5-0 win at Cagliari with a quartet in the 5-3 victory over Torino on Sunday. Mertens duly became the first Napoli player to bag four times in a Serie A game since Giuseppe Savoldi against Foggia exactly 39 years earlier. Mertens has now managed more league goals in his last two appearances as he did in each of the previous two seasons.
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