These Patrick Bamford goals vs Villa saw the Leeds striker become the fifth player in the modern PL era to score a hat trick at Villa Park after Chris Sutton, Robbie Fowler, Gareth Bale and Sergio Aguero. The Bamford hat trick v Villa took his Leeds tally to six goals in the opening six games of the seasons for the Whites- only Eric Cantona had as many at the same stage for Leeds in a previous PL campaign.Leeds won the game 3-0.
Villa 0-3 Leeds (Bamford hat trick goal vs Aston Villa 74′)
Villa 0-2 Leeds United (Bamford second goal vs Aston Villa 67′)
Villa 0-1 LUFC (Bamford first goal v Villa 55′)
Here is a look at the xG stats for Aston Villa vs Leeds– Bamford’s three goals had a xG of 0.65, 0.05 and 0.09 respectively.
Who is this Patrick Bamford and what have they done with him over the summer? Remarkable.